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This is our quarterly 12-page newsletter. Below is a description of what you'll find in each issue. Click on issue date for links to newsletter articles, download a PDF by clicking on the newsletter image, or sign up to receive the Leopold Letter by email or in your mailbox.

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  • Looking beyond the crisis in ag: What farmers think
  • Comparing apples to apples: A study of food pathways
  • The Keeney imprint: Impressions from the field
  • New Wallace Chair wants to listen
  • Science with Stewardship: Nurturing the New Oak
  • Will 'Kevorkian economics' destroy family farms?
  • From the Field: Andy Demuth
  • Follow-up to swine conference: Change and hope produced

 

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  • Leopold Center awards $404,000 to new projects, renews 20 others
  • Director column: The fourth revolution in agriculture
  • New law changes ex officio members to formal members of board
  • Farming the Internet
  • From the Field: LaVon Griffieon,farming on the doorstep of development
  • Center snags communications kudos
  • Handbook gets the bugs out
  • Center Progress Report highlights research
  • Swine System Options conference draws 350

 

Open the PDF to read articles in this issue:
  • Paul Johnson on sustainable ag: A look back, a look ahead
  • Neil Hamilton: Eight sustainable ag lessons
  • Director column: A matter of unfinished business
  • Survey: Farmers' thoughts on sustainable agriculture
  • Retirements announced at Leopold Center
  • Earth-friendly pork: A niche market waiting to happen
  • From the Field: Steve Weis
  • Center funds Master Conservationist program expansion