Projects

C-CHANGE is an Iowa State University Presidential Interdisciplinary Research Initiative focused on building science-based partnerships for meeting 21st century challenges and opportunities in agriculture, technology, and innovation.

The goal of the Horizon II Climate-smart Commodities Project is to pilot and demonstrate how farmers can get environmental credit compensation and renewable energy revenue by harvesting prairie and winter crop biomass.

PEWI is an online tool designed to provide a scientific platform for teaching, discussing, and evaluating agricultural watershed management.

The STRIPS team pioneered field application of prairie strips as a farmland conservation practice. Farmers and farmland owners can now receive funding through the USDA Conservation Reserve Program to establish prairie strips on their farms.