STRIPS Videos

In this short movie, Restoring the Balance: Prairie Conservation Strips, you can learn about the STRIPS project, how prairie strips can benefit our water, soil, and native flora and fauna, and why farmers and farmland owners are choosing to place prairie strips on their fields. We have additional video resources associated with the production of this movie including:

• A Difference You Can See featuring scientist Lisa Schulte Moore
   
• Preserving a Family Legacy featuring farmland owner collaborator Maggie McQuown
   
• A Nutrient Reduction Strategy featuring scientist Matt Helmers
   
• Providing Habitat for Wildlife featuring conservationist Anna MacDonald

Further informational videos on prairie strips include:

• Field Tile Investigation August 2017 from Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
   
• In His Own Words: Richard Sloan's Prairie Strips featuring farmer cooperator Dick Sloan
   
• ISU Prairie STRIPS Program in November 2014, May 2015, and September 2015 from the Iowa Agribusiness Report
   
• New Pathways to Sustainability in Agroecological Systems, from the journal Elementa, featuring scientists Matt Liebman and Lisa Schulte Moore and farmer cooperator Seth Watkins
   
• Prairie Strips Design Tool Video Tutorial
   
• Slow Jam Prairie Strips featuring scientist Lisa Schulte Moore
   
• Testing a trio: Prairie Strips, Crops, and Birds featuring conservationist Anna MacDonald when she was a graduate student working on the STRIPS project

General presentations on agriculture from STRIPS team members can be found below:

• USDA Farm Service Agency webinar on using prairie strips for Blurring the Lines between Working and Conservation Lands featuring investigators Matt Helmers, Mary Harris, and Lisa Schulte Moore
   
• Panel discussion on Who Will Farm? And How? with farmer Seth Watkins at the Food for Tomorrow conference.
   
• Presentation and panel discussion featuring farmer Seth Watkins on the Interconnections of Land to Sea at Capitol Hill Oceans Week 2017
   
• Nancy Grudens-Schuck and Joe Lally discuss the in's and out's of Agriculture and Conservation Consulting in the Midwest.