§ 266.39B — Research grants

Iowa § 266.39B

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title VII: EDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
• Ch. 266: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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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.
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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. Grantsavailableformatchingfederalorprivatefundsforprojectswhichareanecessary
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, togrow, process, andmarketnewcrops, ortodeveloptheinfrastructuretosupport
new crops.
f. Researchdisseminationwhichwillexpandtheknowledgeofpotentialproducers, orwill
collect, create, or disseminate agricultural knowledge, which will encourage the exchange of
agriculturallyrelatedinformationamongresearchers, orwhichwillprovideaccesstofarmers
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.