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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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Leopold Letter Winter 2004

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  • Leopold Center begins new grass-based focus
  • Policy Initiative white paper explores global ag policy
  • Director column: Overcoming the great divide
  • Iowa farmland values rise
  • Southwest Iowa farmer Doug Beckman represents Farm Bureau on advisory board
  • Looking at Asian soybean rust
  • Quebec's Charlevois lamb: Connecting a premium product with farmer profits
  • New York grape growers look at heritage development
  • Leopold Center gathers and listens to newsletter feedback
  • New report explores Iowa's food stories, heritage
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Leopold Letter Fall 2004

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  • Leopold Center grant leads to new fertilizer technology
  • Ecology initiative launches 17 new projects
  • Director column: Challenges come home to roost
  • Trends in Iowa farmland ownership will change landscape
  • Hoops prove their worth
  • From the field: Dick and Sharon Thompson
  • Spencer Award presented at Iowa State Fair
  • Farmers learn how to grow markets as well as products
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Leopold Letter Summer 2004

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  • We’d like to hear from you...why this is a brief issue
  • Spencer Award goes to Thompsons during Iowa State Fair
  • Marketing Initiative asks for new project ideas
  • Hoop Group plans international conference










     
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Leopold Letter Spring 2004

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  • Leopold Center challenge grant helps launch new program
  • Hopping beetles may help Iowa get jump on weed pest
  • Phosphorus work fine-tunes Iowa P-Index
  • Why do consumers choose local foods?
  • Director column: 'Supersize' vs. 'Have it your way'
  • College honors two Leopold Center staff members
  • Effort seeks to help America's 'disappearing middle' in farming
  • Value chain partnerships project gathers momentum
  • Re-designed web site offers new features, grant summaries
  • Annual Report: Practicing an art