266.39A - AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH.
266.39A AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH.
Iowa state university of science and technology shall conduct
continuing agricultural research to provide information about
environmental and social impacts of agricultural research on the
small or family farm and information about population trends and
impact of the trends on Iowa agriculture, in addition to research
that may include the categories specified in section 266.39B,
subsection 2. The research shall include an agricultural land tenure
study conducted every five years to determine the ownership of
farmland, and to analyze ownership trends, using the categories of
land ownership defined in chapter 9H. The study shall be conducted
on the basis of regions established by the university. A region
shall be composed of not more than twenty-three contiguous counties.
Section History: Recent Form
89 Acts, ch 319, § 71; 92 Acts, ch 1080, § 1