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Farm-centered focus: This issue highlights new research of the Leopold Center with a farm-centered focus – from cover crops and new food production tools to how farmers can understand and reduce their energy use. You’ll also learn about policy options from a recently completed project that would encourage renewable energy in rural Iowa, and two important anniversaries in 2012. Distinguished Fellow Fred Kirschenmann talks about how we need to focus on relationships rather than things in his quarterly commentary.
Other features: The popularity of high tunnels for growing produce and new resources developed with Leopold Center funds, local food efforts, a report from the Iowa Water Conference, our new director’s move back to the Midwest, the connection between fracking and Iowa, and word about our beautiful, new annual report and interactive timeline.
