A recent study has confirmed that although there was a large reduction of organic carbon and total nitrogen pools when prairies were first cultivated and drained, there has been no consistent pattern ...

AMES, Iowa – Researchers at Iowa State University will test how the environmental benefits of planting strips of prairie among row crops change over time, filling in an unexplored gap in prairie strip ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...

Prairie strips can improve measures of soil health faster than expected, according to new research by Iowa State University scientists working in cooperation with the Soil Health Institute. Subscribe ...

Prairies once extended in a broad, almost continuous band from southern Saskatchewan, Canada, into the Midwest and Central United States and southward to Texas and New Mexico. These vast grasslands ...

Snowball Hill Prairie in Cass County is part of the more than 3,000 acres of grasslands Missouri Prairie Foundations works to safeguard. Vast amounts of prairie speckled with wildflowers once covered ...

A team of researchers from Northwestern (from the research groups of Profs. Aaron Packman and George Wells), The Nature Conservancy, and Loyola University demonstrated how precipitation and water ...

At one time, Missouri had approximately 15 million acres of prairie, which have have some of the richest soils on Earth and are important habitat for wildlife. A parcel of land southeast of Bolivar, ...

About 4 miles from the Chicago Rockford International Airport, violet wood sorrel has started to grow. The low-lying Illinois native with delicate, trumpet-shaped flowers is a sign of hope for those ...

AMES, Iowa - Researchers at Iowa State University will test how the environmental benefits of planting strips of prairie among row crops change over time, filling in an unexplored gap in prairie strip ...