Soil Health: Armor
Soil armor or cover, provides numerous benefits for cropland, rangeland, hayland, gardens, orchards, road ditches, and more.
Soil Health: Minimizing Soil Disturbance
A typical soil is approximately 45% mineral (sand, silt, and clay), 5% soil organic matter, 25% water, and 25% air. The water and air portions exist in the pore spaces… Continue Reading Soil Health: Minimizing Soil Disturbance
Soil Health: Continual Live Plant/Root
Our perennial grasslands consist of cool season grasses, warm season grasses, and flowering forbs. Consequently, adaptable plants are able to grow during the cool spring and fall weather, as well… Continue Reading Soil Health: Continual Live Plant/Root
Soil Health: Livestock Integration
Animals, plants, and soils have played a synergistic role together over geological time. In recent years, animals are playing a reduced role due to being placed in confinement and fewer… Continue Reading Soil Health: Livestock Integration
Cover Cropping for Pollinators and Beneficial Insects
Honey bees and wild bees alike are considered important agricultural pollinators, and both groups of bees share many of the same habitat requirements necessary to thrive. Both require reliable and… Continue Reading Cover Cropping for Pollinators and Beneficial Insects
Interseeding Wildflowers to Diversify Grasslands for Pollinators
Land managers and land owners can bring wildflowers back to low diversity, established grass stands through a process known as interseeding (also referred to as overseeding). Interseeding involves suppression of… Continue Reading Interseeding Wildflowers to Diversify Grasslands for Pollinators
North Dakota Monarch Butterfly and Native Pollinator Strategy
The Monarch Butterfly has received considerable attention in recent years due to a drastic decline in population. Other pollinating insect species, such as honey bees, native bees and butterflies, are… Continue Reading North Dakota Monarch Butterfly and Native Pollinator Strategy
Ranchland Management and Pollinators
Ranchers are essential stewards of grasslands and prevent rangeland from being converted to cropland or urban areas. Rangelands are important for pollinators, providing contiguous and often expansive areas of habitat… Continue Reading Ranchland Management and Pollinators
Tunnel Nests for Native Bees
About 30 percent of the four thousand species of bees native to North America nest in small tunnels. There are many simple and successful ways to make artificial nests for… Continue Reading Tunnel Nests for Native Bees