Tips/Blogs from Kerr Center Staff

David Redhage offers this book review of The Sunflower Family, a new ID guide from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT).

The Field Notes November 2019 issue covers sunflower identification, disaster preparedness, Oklahoma endangered species, and more!

Bird populations are dropping sharply – common and rare species alike. What can you do to help?

SARE”S set of new fact sheets detail the ecosystem services of cover crops: from preventing erosion to protecting songbirds.

Oklahoma-based Johnston Seeds has developed three different pollinator seed mixes tailored for eastern, central and western Oklahoma. 

Modernizing old technologies can make good sense in today’s world. What old technology do you use because it is best for the task?

In 2018, Princeton University Press released an updated 2nd edition of Garden Insects of North America, with over 700 pages and more than 3,000 full color plates. If you wanted one book to help identify garden insects, this is it.

Get trained to monitor monarchs right in your own back yard (or back forty).

The book I am reviewing covers a topic you probably wouldn’t consider important for sustainable agriculture unless it was part of your soil. The book’s title is The World in a Grain: The Story of…

The 2017 U.S. Census of Agriculture – recently released by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) – showed that on a national scale, Oklahoma is 7th in the nation for the largest decrease in cropland acreage using conventional tillage practices.