Conservation

Whether for fun or business, beekeeping reaps many rewards when done successfully.

Commentary: Research and technologies provide new ways to approach problems in agriculture.

Iowa Learning Farms: "Whole Farm Conservation Best Practices" can help you select most appropriate practices.

Iowa Learning Farms’ virtual field day June 11 will highlight use of saturated buffers on farms.

Iowa Learning Farms webinar June 10 will explain how to optimize nutrient-reducing prairie strips in fields.

A land survey will help prove property boundaries before activities such as site preparation, planting, thinning, spraying or harvesting timber.

The trial looks to evaluate planting green, roller crimping and cover crop grazing.

Seed quality attributes include purity, vigor, germination rate, weed seed percentages and “trueness to its variety.”

The Big Pine Creek Watershed Project field day originally set for June 5 is rescheduled for Aug. 28.