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After years of pushing for prairie strips, this ecologist won a MacArthur 'Genius' grant

Lisa Schulte Moore used to have to explain the benefits of her work to farmers in the Corn Belt. Now, over half of farmers in Iowa are willing to plant prairie strips next to cropland to improve soil health and water quality and mitigate climate change.
Most farmers in the Great Plains don't grow fruits and vegetables. The pandemic is changing that
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Most farmers in the Great Plains don't grow fruits and vegetables. The pandemic is changing that

Amid massive tracts of wheat and corn destined for global markets, some farmers are planting cover crop mixes designed to be harvested by their communities.
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