Grape Expectations: A Food System Perspective on Redeveloping the Iowa Grape Industry

August 2002

Rich Pirog, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

This paper looks at Iowa's once thriving grape industry and its potential today, particularly with relation to vineyards and wineries. See grant project 2003-M3.

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