Reports:

Research Reports

• From Ennui to Empowerment: Farmer Boredom and the Innovation of Relay Intercropping in Iowa

• Reimagining Cover Crops

• How to Increase Iowa Farmers’ and Landowners’ Understanding of Edge-of-Field Practices: Evidence from a 2024 Survey

• Decoding Iowa Farmers’ Understanding of Edge-of-Field Conservation Practices

• Water Issues in Iowa

Evaluation Report

Iowa Learning Farms was created in 2004, with field days and meetings beginning in 2005. The program provides regular reports to our funding partners. Previous reports are available upon email request to ilf@iastate.edu.

ILF Journal Articles

Iowa learning farms: Utilizing research to develop and deliver extension outreach programs across multiple constituencies, March 2025, Journal of Environmental Quality

Motivating conservation action in the Upper Midwest: Source attention, information seeking and sharing, and farmers' land management decisions, December 2024, Conservation Science and Practice

Promoting agricultural conservation on Facebook: an exploration of the performance of farmer identity frames across age and gender, October 2023, Sustainable Science

Virtually the Same? Understanding Virtual and F2F Farmer Audiences, May 2023, Journal of Extension

Effectively Conducting Field Days While Responding to Unprecedented External Restrictions, October 2020, Journal of Extension

Cooperative Extension and Practicing Anthropology: A Natural Fit, Spring 2019, Practicing Anthropology

Rapid Needs Assessment and Response Technique, April 2018, Journal of Extension

Field Day Success Loop, December 2017, Journal of Extension