The Iowa Forage and Grasslands Councilrecognized the Leopold Center for its significant contributions to funding grazing and forage research and education in Iowa over the last 20 years.
The center helped fund a study in 2016 by researchers in the Department of Chemistry that used fluorescence spectroscopy to identify milk from grass-fed cows. Jacob Petrich and his team in chemistry, measured the amount of chlorophyll metabolites in milk, which were found to be greater from cows fed grass compared with those fed grain and silage. The study was published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
AMES, Iowa — Three former Iowa legislators recall the 1987 Iowa Groundwater Protection Act and establishment of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture for the Shivvers Memorial Lecture.
A farming couple who advocate for sustainable agriculture and a USDA agronomist are the recipients of the 2016 Spencer Award for Sustainable Agriculture.
AMES, Iowa—The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture’s 2016 annual report is now available in print and online. The report reviews the 2016 fiscal year –July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016– and was mailed to requestors in late November.
Summaries of five recently completed research projects are now available from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University. The projects were funded by the Leopold Center’s long-running Competitive Grants Program.
