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7th Annual Underground Innovations set to take place February 4-5, 2025

12.18.24

Frankenmuth, Michigan - Michigan Agriculture Advancement's 7th Annual Underground Innovations meeting will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, February 4-5, 2025 at the Bavarian Inn Lodge. Hosted by MiAA and the KBS LTER. Network with producers from across Michigan and beyond to help take ideas home to implement on your own operations. Speakers will share how they've come to adopt new practices on their farms, how they've gotten to this point, and where they are looking to go in the future. This year's speakers will focus on conservation topics such as cover crops, prairie plantings,

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Kellogg Biological Station joins multi-state effort to increase the adoption of prairie strips across the Midwest

8.17.21

Before there were the gently rolling hills of farmland and forest we see today, southwest Michigan’s landscape included large areas of prairie habitat. Dominated by wildflowers, grasses, and sedges, these habitats were maintained by periodic fires and included oak barrens, dry sand prairies, and wetland prairies. Today, only a few remnants of Michigan’s historical prairies remain on the landscape.  Prairie strips, a conservation practice in row crops that protects soil and water while providing habitat for wildlife, are one way to restore these habitats to the

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Herbicide resistant weeds threaten conservation agriculture

6.16.21

Glyphosate-resistant horseweed growing in a Michigan soybean field.

East Lansing, MI – Soybean farmers are turning away from conservation agriculture practices that protect soil and environmental health to manage herbicide resistant weeds, say researchers in Michigan State University’s (MSU) Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics (AFRE). In a new study published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Braeden Van Deynze (now a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Washington), Scott Swinton (MSU), and David Hennessy (MSU), examined the herbicide and tillage records of thousands of soybean farmers across the United

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Using prairie strips to understand the value of diversifying agricultural landscapes: Reflections from an LTER Fellow

2.6.20

MSU graduate researcher, Lindsey Kemmerling, is a PhD student in Dr. Nick Haddad's lab at Michigan State University's Kellogg Biological Station. Society today faces three immense ecological challenges: preventing the loss of biodiversity, adapting to climate change, and sustainably supporting a growing population. Humans have caused a global biodiversity crisis, with new studies continuing to reveal stunning rates of biodiversity decline across the entire tree of life. Simultaneously, we are presented with the challenge of sustainably and equitably supporting a growing human

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Bringing new life to a dead zone problem: Reflections from an LTER researcher

2.14.18

Bonnie McGill in a mokoro (canoe) in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.

By, Bonnie McGill, PhD candidate and LTER researcher in Professor Steve Hamilton's Lab, W.K Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University ~~~~ Nitrate, dead zone, Midwest, agriculture—you know where this is headed. Here I’m going to explain a new project I will soon embark on for my postdoctoral work where I will try to improve our understanding of how voluntary conservation practices on farms in Iowa affect the nitrate concentrations in Iowa streams and rivers. The mammoth amount of previous work, complexity, and controversy around this issue is not lost on me. The issue of

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Recent News and Events

  • Collaboration between Michigan farmers and LTER researchers provides insights into soil health at the margins of agricultural fields
  • Long-term research at the KBS LTER reveals how changes in land use shape soil structure and carbon storage
  • Collaborative study with Michigan DNR to support agriculture and conservation
  • Bird Sanctuary to feature poetry by Artist in Residence, Mikayla Thompson, this April
  • Nick Haddad, co-Director of the KBS LTER, recognized as 2024 AAAS Fellow

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