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A Plan to Reduce the Size of the Dead Zone

This week I received an email from a representative of Landscape Architecture Magazine to inform me about their November 2012 issue which features a cover story titled, “The Dead Zone Starts (or Stops) Here” by Anne Raver. I read the article from this quality publication and it is superbly written and the study has a [...]

Iowa State’s Leopold Center Introduces Mark Rasmussen

I was thumbing through a copy of the summer Leopold Letter recently and really enjoyed the writing of their new director, Mark Rasmussen, titled “Let’s get acquainted”. In it, he revealed that he hails from my own turf of Northeastern Nebraska. When I contacted him to see if I could repost his writing here, he [...]

Observations From an Iowa Farm by Walter Falcon

Fertility, 1939 by Grant Wood; Lithograph. Spencer Museum of Art, Univ. of Kansas. Note that the following writing (August 4, 2012) is by Walter P. Falcon, Farnsworth Professor of International Agricultural Policy (Emeritus); Deputy Director, Center on Food Security and the Environment, Stanford University. I asked Dr. Falcon if I could publish this here since [...]