Making Iowa Farms More Profitable with 415 Million Milkweeds

Iowa’s Monarch Conservation Strategy seeks to add 160,000,000 new stems of milkweed to Iowa’s landscape by the year 2038. What if I told you we could double that and help farmers save money while we’re at it? That’s the lesson from a recently finished project at Iowa State University where we dispatched armies of water resources interns to a few small patches of grasses and wildflowers in the middle of crop fields south of Ogden to count milkweed stems...

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