Other Videos

Water quality - Land Tenure/Land Ethics - ISU Horticulture - Farm Energy

Here are links to other videos about Leopold Center-supported research, demonstration and outreach activities. The On the Ground video series highlights projects supported by the Leopold Center Ecology Initiative. The links below focus on a variety of other activities.

Nabbing Nitrates: Before Water Leaves the Farm

These videos were produced for M&M Divide Resource Conservation & Development (RC&D) with support from the Leopold Center and 13 collaborating groups. The four short videos show what happens below the ground to remove nitrates from water when varioius conservation practices are used.

View the following videos here:

• Conservation Drainage
• Riparian Forest Buffers
• Working Wetlands
• Bioreactors

Land Tenure and Land Ethics

These videos were developed by the Drake Agricultural Law Center with support from the Leopold Center Policy Initiative. The videos, and a host of other resources, are part of the Sustainable Agricultural Land Tenure Project.

View the following videos here

• Women Landowners: Land Management and Conservation Conversations *NEW!
• New Farmers and Women Landowners: Advice from Former Beginning Farmers *NEW!
• Conservation on Leased Land *NEW!
• Integrating Prairie into Cropland
• Iowa's Land Tenure and Stewardship Policy Project
• Helping Farmers Fulfill the Land Ethic
• Leasing Land to a New Small Farmer
• The Iowa Landowner's Duty of Stewardship 

ISU Horticulture Resources

Rainwater Catchment from a High Tunnel for Irrigation Use is a March 2012 video based on work done with a Leopold Center competitive grant.

Extending the Lettuce Growing Season is a January 2012 video from Ajay Nair's work at ISU in partnership with the Leopold Center.

Iowa Farm Energy Working Group

To help Iowa farmers on small to mid-sized operations see that energy efficiency, conservation and renewable energy opportunities make sense and work, the Farm Energy Working Group produced the following videos with support of a Leopold Center competitive grant. Farmers share how they are reducing fossil fuel use on their farms.

John Rodecap, Decorah, Iowa - No-till corn/soybean farm

Tom Frantzen, Frantzen Farms, New Hampton -- Energy efficiency

Mark Runquist, High Hopes  Gardens, Melbourne - Small wind turbine

Eric & Ann Franzenburg, Pheasant Run Farm, Van Horne - Corn kernel boiler to heat greenhouses