Among nature's truths is that the tiniest of things can have a significant role. The dynamic plays out in the connectedness of Minnesota's prairie habitat, so reliant on a web of wildflowers, grasses ...

More landowners are interested in planting strips of deep-rooted prairie within crop fields or on marginal land as an effective soil conservation and water quality practice. But they need reliable ...

The seeds of the grasses are relatively inexpensive compared to the cost of most prairie flowers. You can hand broadcast your seed mix, or, for larger areas, you can do mechanical planting. Hopefully ...

A prairie seed harvest that began in spring and continued through summer swelter, sometimes by hand, ended recently on a cold winter day. Missouri Department of Conservation staff and volunteers mixed ...

URBANA — As populations of bees and butterflies decline in the Midwest, native prairie restoration becomes crucial. A new Prairie Research Institute study found, however, that many commercial seed ...

Monarchs flitted between vivid purple blazing stars and goldenrod within arm's reach of late-summer seed collectors who studiously wandered the prairie Aug. 18 at Crow-Hassan Park Reserve near Hanover ...

Dropseed, Wild Bergamot, Swamp Milkweed, Switchgrass, Canadian Wild Rye, Purple Prairie Clover, Oxeye Sunflower, are just a sampling of the prairie grasses and flowers Dave Williams, Prairie Institute ...

A worker at North Central Correctional Facility in Rockwell City feeds combine-harvested prairie seed into an auger. Since 2000, a small team at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has been ...

In a lovely display of community spirit, Luther College professors, staff members and alumni created a native prairie seed mix to serve as the memento for President Brad Chamberlain’s inauguration.

A combine harvester rolls through a Nebraska prairie to collect grass seed. From the air, the Midwest looks like a patchwork of cropland and pastures. But before the land was turned over to plows and ...

ARGYLE, Minn. -- Though it's only mid-March, Rivard's Turf and Forage Inc. in Argyle is gearing up for the grass planting season. Thousands of bags of Kentucky blue grass, perennial rye grass and ...

MASON CITY - As North Iowa farmers continue to harvest corn and soybeans, the Integrated Roadside Vegetation Management (IRVM) staff of the Cerro Gordo County Conservation Board is busy with a harvest ...