Acreage Living Newsletter
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Setting the Table for Iowa's Favorite Farmland Birds: Bobwhite Quail and Ring-necked Pheasants |
Perhaps no wild birds captivate the imagination of rural Midwesterners as much as the bobwhite quail and ring-necked pheasant. Both species flock during winter and offer beautiful reprieves from otherwise life-less winter landscapes. Unfortunately though, both species share one more commonality – there are fewer of them in Iowa today than there was throughout most of the 20th century. |
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Don't Sweat Summer Energy Bills |
Home and business owners have way to cut their cooling costs in the summer. |
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Identifying Ticks First Step in Preventing Lyme Disease |
Ticks are active from March through November, the same months that host the most outdoor activities. Understanding the different types of ticks that are found in the state and how to remove ticks if they become attached to a human or domestic animal is the focus of a new Iowa State University Extension and Outreach publication titled ‘Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases in Iowa’ (PM 2036). |
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"Can" a Few Wrens for your Garden |
In Iowa we have several resident and migrant species of wrens that include house, Carolina, winter, sedge, marsh, and the occasional rare sighting of Beewick’s, rock, cactus or canyon wren. |
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Store Fresh Garden Produce Properly |
The storage location and temperature, quality of the product and what they are store with makes a big difference in their storage life. |
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Research Supports Adding Monarch Breeding Habitat to Iowa’s Landscape |
Nearly half of Iowa farmers say in a recent Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll that they are willing to plant monarch breeding habitat but are unsure how much land or money they would invest in the effort. |