Research Results: New summaries and 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 them on our Research Results web page.

• Pottawattamie County Farm to Fork (Phase III)
• Evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions from three dairy production systems in Iowa--conventional, grazing and combination conventional/grazing
• High-tunnel resource manual and producer resource kit providing the tools for profitability
• Experiential educational engagement with working groups and communities of practice
• A feasibility study for the creation of a meat processing training program in Iowa
• Optimizing legume establishment in winter cereal grains
• The impact of biodiversity services in row crop production in annual versus perennial landscapes
• Reducing pesticide use in Iowa vineyards: Alternatives to herbicides for vineyard weed management
• Feasibility of unheated large gutter-connect greenhouses for winter organic vegetable production in Iowa
• Distillers Dried Grains (DDG) feeding and impacts on meat quality for grazing steers
• Adapting land retirement programs in response to Iowa's changing economy

Scientific Journals
Leopold Center-supported projects have produced these papers, recently published in peer-reviewed journals. Check at a research library or the journal’s website for an abstract or full report.

• Tyndall, John, Lisa Schulte, Richard Hall and K. Gruhb (2011) Woody Biomass in the U.S. Cornbelt? Constraints and Opportunities in the Supply from Two Regions. Biomass and Bioenergy 35:1561-1571.
  • This is from a two-year Ecology competitive grant to study wood-based feedstock supply in Iowa to supply fiber for bioenergy fuel and other biobased products. [E2009-26]
• Williams, C.L., Matt Liebman, Paula Westerman, J. Borza, D. Sundberg and B. Danielson (2009) Over-winter predation of Abutilon theophrasti and Setaria faberi seeds in arable land. Weed Research 49(4):439-447. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2009.00715.x
  • This summarizes the research plots set up in 2004 to study weed seed management. The work has continued as a Leopold Center research team on low-external input rotations. [E2004-06]
• Sharma, Amit, Mary Gregoire, and Catherine Strohbehn (2009) Assessing Costs of Using Local Foods in Independent Restaurants. Journal of Foodservice Business Research 12(1):55‐71. DOI: 10.1080/1537802080267208
• Alfnes, Frode, and Amit Sharma (2010) Locally produced food in restaurants: Are the customers willing to pay a premium and why? International Journal of Revenue Management 4 (3/4): 238  DOI: 10.1504/IJRM.2010.035955
  • Both papers stem from a two-year Leopold Center marketing grant to Iowa State University for research on whether serving food purchased from local sources put restaurants at a competitive advantage.[M2005-17]    
• Schmidt, Nicholas, Matt O’Neal and Lisa Schulte Moore (2011) Effects of grassland habitat and plant nutrients on soybean and natural enemy populations. Environmental Entomology 40(2): 260-272.
  • This was a three-year study associated with the prairie strips research at the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Jaspar County. [E2006-13]
     

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