At 10 a.m. this morning at the Iowa Department of Administrative Services’ Wallace State Office Building in downtown Des Moines, advocates of Iowa State University’s Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture plan to meet “to call for a re-funded, re-staffed, and re-imagined” center after GOP lawmakers last year stripped its state funding and tried to kill it altogether.
“Iowa faces agricultural challenges requiring collaboration, creativity, innovation, transparency, and science-based approaches,” the advocates said in a statement. “Now more than ever, supporters argue, Iowa needs a Leopold Center strengthened by a supportive public and a supportive home.”
They also produced three videos last week featuring supporters of sustainable agriculture in Iowa who are calling for “a new vision” for Iowa ag.
