Crops + Prairie = Farmland Conservation
A new report that calculates the cost of establishing strips of prairie amid run-in crops suggests that it might be one of the most price - in force and humbled - effort conservation practice available to farmers and landowners in the Midwest . The innovational exercise , which has been contemplate by Iowa State researchers for several years , commute one - one-tenth of a course - cropped field to perennial prairie , resulting in more than a 90 - percent reduction in soil and nutrient overflow from the entire field ....