Advisory board changes approved

Effective July 1, 1999, the Leopold Center's Advisory Board will have four more voting members. As a result of an amendment to Section 266.39 in the Code of Iowa 1999, signed by Governor Tom Vilsack on April 29, the four ex officio members added to the board in 1996 will now become full voting members of the board, to help ensure that the Center reaches on the best possible concsensus on its proposed course of research and education programs.

Assuming voting member status will be Kurt Johnson, Audubon farmer, representing Iowa Farm Bureau Federation; Marvin Shirley, Minburn, Iowa Farmers Union; Paul Mugge, Practical Farmers of Iowa; and Jim Penney and Craig Struve, sharing an appointment representing the Agribusiness Association of Iowa.

Ex officio memberships were added to the advisory board to bolster farmer and agribusiness representation on the board in response to recommendations from a 1995 review of the Center's programs and procedures