The final listening session for the Leopold Center at Iowa State University is set for next week in northeast Iowa. Center director Mark Rasmussen says a task force put together the listening sessions to chart the future after the Legislature voted to shut down the center, but then Governor Terry Branstad vetoed the portion of the bill that cut the center. Rasmussen says there’s been a lot of input in the sessions.
The center has financed hundreds of ag research projects aimed at reducing soil and farm chemical runoff in its 30 years.
Rasmussen says the task force will use all the information and suggestions it is hearing to come up with recommendations.
The final listening session is scheduled for November 15th on the campus of Northeast Iowa Community College in Calmar.
