Wednesday, August 23, 2023 | 10:00am-1:00pm
Hosts: Larry & Margaret Stone
Location: Whannel Farm | 2381 180th Street, Traer, Iowa, 50675
Guest Speaker: Tim Youngquist, Iowa State University, Farmer Liasion
Event Information Read more about Pollinators, Prairie Strips and Oxbows
August 16, 2023 with Eric Hennings Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University Read more about Comparing Infiltration Between Prairie Strips and Row Crop Fields Across Iowa
Ava Mandolia, Investigate Midwest
Nearly 250 million acres of the Great Plains have been converted to cropland as of 2020. Farmers and wildlife both suffer from the depletion of prairies.
Learn More Read more about Iowa Skipper Butterfly 'Canary in Coal Mine': A Warning Sign of Prairie Loss Consequences for Farmers, Wildlife Alike
The STRIPS project began in 2003, when Iowa State University scientists began discussing the opportunity to test the effects of integrating restored prairie in crop fields with managers at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. Together, the scientists and refuge managers established four different treatments on 12 small watersheds at Neal Smith in 2007. As of 2012, we're now also working on a growing number of commercial farm fields across Iowa and northern Missouri. Read more about the research background, farmer collaborators, and research topics here. Read more about Research Overview
Amy Mayer
BioScience, August 9, 2023
Read The Full Story Read more about Farming for Solutions: Perennial Plants and Native Prairie Show Promise for Sustainability, Climate Goals
Prairie strips are most easily established in fields which have previously been used for tilled annual row crop production (Jarchow and Liebman, 2011). Seeding following soybeans is especially favored for prairie strip establishment because the tilled field will have a reduced seed bank of annual weed seed and the soybean stubble will decompose readily (Jarchow and Liebman, 2011).
Nonetheless, if the correct procedures are followed prairie can be easily established following any crop or land cover. Read more about Prairie Strip Installation and Establishment
Prairie strips will be part of several field days this summer. Click here for more information. Read more about Summer 2018 Field Days
Information on prairie strips will be presented at several field days and extension events in 2017. Click the header above for the full list. Read more about Summer 2017 Field Days
