The rush to turn corn into ethanol as a replacement for gasoline has been profitable for Iowa's farmers — but recent research has uncovered ...
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My favorite is a single bloom of yellow and red American bittersweet encased in ice but still brilliantly colored. On the page across from it is the Northern Flicker, with its long blue beak, black spotted underbelly and touch of red on its head, sitting in a patch of woodland grasses and undergrowth, either waiting for prey or hiding from it. He adds a new word to my vocabulary: Fen. This is a wetland, saturated, filled with organic nature and simply very nutrient-rich. He tells the story of a farmer in Fayette County who had tried for years to drain his fen to use for farmland. He already had mired a couple tractors in the muck, had tried using drainage tiles, sprayed the vegetation with herbicide...
CSIF launches on-farm environmental program | Brownfield
The Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers (CSIF) has launched a new program encouraging farmers to plant more trees and shrubs around their livestock facilities.
It’s called the Green Farmstead Partner program. Two organizations-Trees Forever and the Iowa Nursery and Landscape Association-are helping in the effort. The coalition’s Megan Ritter says vegetative environmental buffers-VEB’s-provide numerous benefits for farmers and their neighbors. She cites Iowa State research showing that VEB’s can reduce odor from livestock barns by 10 to 15 percent, while also enhancing soil and water quality and conserving energy-not to mention making farms more aesthetically pleasing.
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Autumn colors are easy to find in IowaUSA Today - Sep 14, 2009
Waterbury and South of Grand neighborhoods, where you'll find old oak trees, burning bush shrubs and redbud trees in every shade of orange and red. and more »Examiner.com - Sep 09, 2009
Perennials, shrubs and trees are the core of the garden center, and the nursery has a particularly in-depth selection of shade shrubs and perennials housed
Iowa City Press Citizen - Sep 13, 2009
Press celebrates state's smallest inhabitantsPearson describes the many wild species of grasses, trees, shrubs, wildflowers and wildlife from cliffs overlooking the Mississippi to valleys near thePrinceton Union Eagle - Aug 27, 2009
Both the front and back yards at the Jerome and Joanne Peterson residence have been transformed into a showcase of flowers, shrubs and trees for the pastExaminer.com - Aug 18, 2009
TNT Landscaping is more than 20 years old and occupies five acres east of State Street/Second Ave. The nursery offers a large selection of trees and shrubsABC News - Sep 08, 2009
AP DES MOINES (AP) — Whether you're on a river, in the woods or driving by the famed bridges of Madison County, autumn colors are easy to find in Iowa. and more »Examiner.com - Aug 26, 2009
Part of a full-service design, build and installation firm, Heard Garden Center and Nursery offers a full range of perennials, shrubs and trees.