News and Reports

AMES, Iowa — Author Hannah Lewis will present the 2023 Shivvers Memorial Lecture, Thursday, April 6 at 5:30 p.m., in the Iowa State University Memorial Union, room 3580. The event is free and open to the public.

AMES, Iowa – Mark Quee, a farmer and educator from West Branch, has been selected as the 2022 winner of the Spencer Award, presented by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University.

AMES, Iowa — The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture’s 2021 annual report, released this week.

AMES, Iowa — Author and agriculture policy researcher, Timothy A.

Professor Stephen J.

Project Report 

The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture’s 2020 annual report is now online.

This week, we were all saddened by the loss of Paul W. Johnson, a great Iowan who lived and breathed
conservation and care for our natural resources. Paul worked long and hard on behalf of Iowa and then

Project Report 

The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture’s 2019 annual report is now online, with an emphasis on LCSA partnerships with Whiterock Conservancy, the Leopold Landscape Alliance, Iowa Learning Farms and others.

AMES, IA – Sutherland farmer Paul Mugge has been selected as the 2019 winner of the Spencer Award, presented by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University.

Paul Johnson and Seth Watkins, winners of the 2018 Spencer Awards, accepted their plaques March 13 at the Iowa Water Conference.

Angie Tagtow, a registered and licensed dietitian with more than 25 years of experience in public health and food policy, will deliver the Shivvers Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m.

The center marked "a year of introspection and re-evaluation" in 2018, according to Director Mark Rasmussen. Its activities and accomplishments are detailed in this annual report (12MB PDF).

Paul Johnson, who co-wrote Iowa’s landmark Groundwater Protection Act as a state legislator, and Seth Watkins, who farms sustainably near Clarinda will be presented the award at the 2019 Iowa Water Conference, which is scheduled for March 12-13, i