Tips/Blogs from Kerr Center Staff

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.

Every morning I look over some headlines in national news publications online, and occasionally one strikes me as important. The following article was one of those, but in the field of sustainable agriculture, it seems…

The monarch butterfly is facing challenges in maintaining its population in North America.  Part of the issue is overwintering sites. There are two main migratory routes for North American monarchs. Monarch butterflies from the Rocky…

The late David Sparks was known to say, “The advice is to stock for a drought. Most people stock for a monsoon.” Even stocking for a drought, though, can create problems. What do you do with the extra forage?