Research Results: 7 new research summaries; Scientific Journals

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Summaries

Easy-to-read summaries are available for these recently completed projects funded by Leopold Center competitive grants. Find short summaries (all are PDFs) about:

• Development and implementation of low-input delivery systems for ethanol co-products in forage-based beef systems
• Participatory ecology for ‘Agriculture of the Middle’: Developing tools and partnerships to bridge gaps among science, people and policy in landscape change
• New strategies to enhance sustainability of apple orchards
• Building a direct-to-consumer food distribution system in Iowa
• Strategies to effectively promote and market on-farm retail enterprises
• Tunnels to tables: High tunnel production and distribution model for produce
• Beginning and mid-size Farm Bill analysis: Policy option development and education initiative

Scientific Journals

Leopold Center-supported projects have resulted in these papers, recently published in peer-reviewed journals. Check at a research library or the journal’s Web site for abstract or full report.

• Cruse, Michael J., Matt Liebman, Raj Raman and Mary Wiedenhoeft (2010). Fossil Energy Use in Conventional and Low-External-Input Cropping Systems, Agronomy Journal 102(3): 889-894.

Six years continuous research data from two Leopold Center Ecology Initiative competitive grants: Establishment of a Field School for Weed Ecology and Management; and Agronomic, Ecological and Economic Comparisons of Conventional and Low-External-Input Cropping Systems.

• Schulte, Lisa, James Donahey, Luke Gran, Thomas Isenhart and John Tyndall (2010). People in Ecosystems/Watershed Integration: A dynamic watershed tool for linking agroecosystem outputs to land use and land cover, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 65(2):33A-36A.

Early development of Schulte’s model was supported as part of an agroecosystems planning grant between the Leopold Center and U.S. Forest Service.
 

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