266.39B - RESEARCH GRANTS.
266.39B RESEARCH GRANTS.
1. A comprehensive agricultural research program is established
at the Leopold center for sustainable agriculture at Iowa state
university of science and technology to provide financial assistance
for agricultural research within Iowa. The Leopold center shall
establish a grant program for projects designated by the general
assembly and other projects deemed necessary for the betterment of
agriculture within the state. All funds from the program shall be
available to public and private entities in Iowa on a competitive
grant basis. Approved research proposals shall meet all of the
following criteria:
a. The research shall assist Iowa in maintaining productive
soil, viable communities, and farms with incomes sufficient to
support a family.
b. The research shall enhance the profitability of farmers.
c. The research shall lead to farming which enhances and
preserves Iowa's environment.
2. The research grants shall include:
a. Long-term and basic research with preference given to
projects which have no traditional funding sources or require a long
period of time to produce positive or negative results.
b. Emergency response research with preference given to
projects which relate to issues expected to address problems
occurring within the next five years, which relate to problems that
could have substantial social and economic costs, or which offer
research opportunities that may be lost if a delay occurs.
c. Grants available for matching federal or private funds for
projects which are a necessary component of other grants or will
produce the highest ratio of outside funds to state funds.
d. Crop and livestock research relating to the growth,
processing, or marketing of agricultural output, the enhancement of
the quality of crops, the lowering of the costs of production, or the
avoidance of contamination to food, water, or soil.
e. Alternative crop research to enhance the opportunity for
self-employment, to promote site-appropriate crops, to assist the
state in becoming more self-sufficient in food and energy resources,
to grow, process, and market new crops, or to develop the
infrastructure to support new crops.
f. Research dissemination which will expand the knowledge of
potential producers, or will collect, create, or disseminate
agricultural knowledge, which will encourage the exchange of
agriculturally related information among researchers, or which will
provide access to farmers to information resources related to
agriculture.
g. Agriculture health and safety research to identify,
investigate, and increase awareness of agriculture safety problems,
develop practical solutions to agriculture safety problems, develop
ways to increase awareness and use of safety practices and devices,
to improve medical professionals' ability to diagnose farm-related
problems, or to reduce the accident and mortality rate in the
agricultural industry. Section History: Recent Form
89 Acts, ch 319, §72
Referred to in § 266.39A