Back in 2003, a team of scientists from Iowa State University began to study how to best introduce conservation practices into working farmland without undermining the crop productivity of the ...

ROCHESTER — A skid loader caught fire in an Eyota field around 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, engulfing 10 acres of prairie grass. According to a release from the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office ...

What they're saying: The studies support native prairie restorations and encourage farmers to begin with grasses on low-productivity land or from buffer strips to existing fields. "The idea is ...

One thing led to another, and pretty soon Whipps had partnered with the SWCD on three projects – two to repair and restore ravines and one to plant prairie grass and wildflowers, as well as inst ...

Heavy growths of prairie grasses were found adjacent to both rivers, and mottes of post oak trees were observed on the rolling hills near the Little Wichita River. Interestingly, Marcy did not mention ...

In the mixedgrass prairie where mid grasses and short grasses grow in mosaic patches, the fourspotted grasshopper occupies the patches of short grass. It has been recorded infrequently from the ...

The species is most abundant in upland areas of short grasses in the tallgrass and southern mixedgrass prairies. In the shortgrass prairie of Colorado and New Mexico, it inhabits mesic swales.