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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 2005

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  • Marketing projects attract growing interest
  • Leopold Center sees leadership changes
  • Director column: Introducing Jerry DeWitt
  • Kirschenmann column: Adapting to Changes
  • Jackson brings provocative message to ISU
  • Finding the links among cows, creeks and conservation
  • Learn-as-you-go lessons about cover crops
  • Green Lands Blue Waters launches new Iowa learning group
  • Grape expectations for expanding industry
  • Agriculture of the Middle project launches nationwide effort
  • New web tool explores potential produce markets
  • Consultant surveys possible Policy Initiative work
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Leopold Letter Fall 2005

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  • Educator selected for 2005 Spencer Award
  • Leopold Center lends support for Whiterock Conservancy
  • Director column: Expanding the scientific mission
  • Conference seeks to strengthen traditional public breeding programs
  • How two chefs built restaurants around local food
  • Triticale, a versatile crop for Iowa growers
  • Researchers study nature's 'little hammers'
  • Celebrating Iowa's horticultural heritage
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Leopold Letter Summer 2005

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  • Leopold Center seeks ideas for 2006 projects
  • Duffy leaves Center for full-time research, teaching
  • Director column: The death and rebirth of everything
  • Study shows farmers' markets boost Iowa economy
  • Aldo's apple tree lives on, thanks to Iowa orchardist
  • Center establishes endowment fund
  • Study tabulates 'external' costs of U.S. agriculture
  • Take a spin on I-FARM: Create your own virtual farm
  • Center issues compilation of latest research results
     
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Leopold Letter Spring 2005

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  • Leopold Center funds 19 new marketing, food systems projects
  • Energy and agriculture: Making it work
  • Director column: Meeting the challenges ahead
  • Researchers explore hoop barns for feeding beef cattle
  • Midwest organic farmers see benefits from "coop"-erating
  • Survey gives snapshot of healthy CSAs in Midwest
  • Leopold Center issues "timely" 2004 annual report
  • Finding Iowa's food stories
  • Well-traveled yogurt