A Leopold Center report looks at possible advantages and environmental benefits of a regional and local food system compared to a conventional food system. A Leopold Center report looks at Iowa's once-thriving grape industry. As part of its local food systems initiative , the Center also has helped with workshops and contributed to an ISU Extension web site devoted to viticulture. A Leopold Center grant looks for sources of local prairie seed as a new market and helped fund the book, A practical Guide to Prairie Reconstruction, now available from the University of Iowa Press . The Water Cycle Water is one of our most precious natural resources.
Every drop of water is part of a never-ending cycle.
Now anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can learn about water through free educational software developed as part of the 1997 Year of Water in Iowa. Apples to apples A Leopold Center report looks at Iowa apple production from a food system perspective. The bottom line and GMOs Economist and associate director Mike Duffy looks at how genetically modified crops affected the bottom line for Iowa farmers in an article that appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of the Leopold Letter.