Iowa's Duty of Land Stewardship

April 2012

Edward Cox, Drake Agricultural Law Center

Iowa’s courts and legislature have established a strong legal foundation for a duty of stewardship. The brochure was developed as part of the Sustainable Agricultural Land Tenure Initiative, and provides a brief history of how this foundation was laid as well as additional details on Iowa’s soil conservation law, conservation incentive programs, and federal conservation compliance laws.

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This page was found at http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs-and-papers/2012-04-iowas-duty-land-stewardship on 01/20/2013