• Royce Fellowship
Adam
Pelzer

Concentration 

Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship

Award Year 

2011
Inside Iowa Pork Production: Assessing Farmers' Policy Needs

Faculty Sponsor: Kathryn DeMaster

Adam conducted a social survey to identify pork farmers’ motivations and barriers to implement environmentally sustainable practices. His study communicated the reservations of farmers that prevent their participation in conservation programs, while cataloguing the often unheard of account of pork production to analyze the forces that drive the industry in hopes that better farm policies can be crafted.

Adam lives in Iowa and is a special projects manager and Chief Financial Officer at Northwest Bank & Trust Company.