Crops of ancient Iowa: Native plant use and farming systems
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1993
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Green, William
Asch, David
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Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
The Leopold Center is a research and education center on the campus of Iowa State University created to identify and reduce negative environmental and social impacts of farming and develop new ways to farm profitably while conserving natural resources.
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Maize and common beans were introduced as crops some 1,000 years ago to the land we now call Iowa. They marked the beginning of intensive agriculture in this area. But humans had begun evolving from hunter-gatherers to farmers several thousands of years earlier. This ancient agriculture in Iowa was characterized by changing patterns in the use of both native and introduced crops.