Invasive grasses can quickly take over rangeland and diminish forage quality. Keeping rangeland healthy by not overgrazing ...

For the week ending March 29, Kansas hay trades and demand remain slow, according to the Kansas Department of Agriculture-USDA Market News.

Support skipper butterflies and add clumps of blue-green color to the landscape by planting several little bluestem grasses.

Any of the native grasses are suitable for this, including Big Bluestem, Little Bluestem, Indian Grass, Prairie Dropseed, and Little Bluestem. Some perennial flowers that do not require cold ...

During the spring and summer, 17 wildflowers and grasses were observed in the prairie restoration area. One of the most noticeable vegetation changes was observed in September, when a high density of ...

Kansas hay market report for the week ending March 15, as reported by the Kansas Department of Agriculture-USDA Market News, ...

The plants grow in shallow and sandy soils and parasitize the roots of adjoining bluestem grasses. They require annual rainfall and direct sunlight. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, ...

Little bluestem grass and purple coneflowers are examples that adapt well to garden beds. Natives are adapted to our local soils and climate, and once established, they can be more hardy and ...

Other types of grassland grasses include a much taller type called big bluestem, which grows with very deep roots in the wetter parts of North America. In the 1930s settlers ploughed the big ...