Research Results

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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 current Research Results newsletter web page.

• Agronomic, ecological and economic comparisons of conventional and low-external-input cropping systems
• Custom grazing contracts: Successful models to grow profit, avoid pitfalls
• Building the Iowa wine culture through improved quality
• Improving veterinary care for organic livestock systems
• Routing foods into southeast Iowa
• Transitioning the Pork Niche Market Working Group to self-sufficiency

Scientific Journals

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

• Hu, Guiping, Lizhi Wang, Susan Arendt and Randy Boeckenstedt (2011). An optimization approach to assessing the self-sustainability potential of food demand in the Midwestern United States. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development 2(1):1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2011.021.004
  
  This project included the redevelopment of the online tool, the Iowa Fruit and Vegetable Market Planner (see http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/cool_tools).
   
• Wilson, Henry, Rick Cruse and Lee Burras (2011). A method to adapt watershed-scale sediment fingerprinting techniques to small-plot runoff experiments, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 66(5):323-328.

This was a special project of the Leopold Center that studied in-field conservation practices (see report in our Spring 2008 newsletter).

• Giovannucci, Daniele, Barham, Elizabeth and Pirog, Rich, Defining and Marketing Local Foods: Geographical Indications for U.S. Products (2010). Journal of World Intellectual Property. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1814566  (4-2011 posted)

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This page was found at http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/news/leopold-letter/2011/winter/research-results on 01/21/2013