Media Category: KBS

Prairie strips blooming next to a cornfield in Michigan

Collaborator, Cole Dutter, collecting deep soil samples to better understand how neonic insecticides move through the system. Not pictured are Chris Whittie and Jacob Stutt who also helped collect soil data.

The Science-based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairie Strips (or “STRIPS”) experiment site in Ames, Iowa, where this experiment was conducted.

Lead author Dr. Corinn Rutkoski (right) and her PhD mentor Dr. Sarah Evans (left) pictured at their study site in Ames Iowa.

Prairie strips, strips of planted prairie that split agricultural plots, provide huge ecosystem benefits. The prairie strip is on the left, consisting of primarily ryegrass but containing many other species. The canola on the right makes up the commercial crop in this LTAR field.

LTER Researchers learn about the Kellogg Biological Station at the 2023 Science Council Meeting.