Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021
The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) is awarding a $1,997,454 grant to the University of Minnesota to develop models for sustainable supply chains that create markets for crops farmers can grow in the off season.
“While popular cover crops can be used as food or as inputs in other products, there may not be large markets for these crops,” explained FFAR Executive Director Dr. Sally Rockey. “FFAR hopes to increase the use of cover crops – and reap the environmental benefits – by creating a sustainable market with consistent buyers for these crops.”
Planting continuous living cover crops, such as intermediate wheatgrass, winter camelina, pennycress, winter barley and hybrid hazelnut, has several environmental benefits. These perennials which do not require replanting and winter-hardy annual crops decrease fertilizer runoff to surface and groundwater and increase farmland’s ability to absorb and hold rainfall. Croplands th
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Voyageurs Wolf Project is first to put a video camera collar on a wild wolf. 7:01 pm, Apr. 14, 2021 ×
A wolf chews on a leg bone from a deer in this image captured from video footage from a collar-cam. (Courtesy of Voyageurs Wolf Project)
INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. The researchers at the Voyageurs Wolf Project have hit another home run for folks who like learning about wolves, this time retrieving the first known video from a collar camera placed on a live wild wolf.
Lone wolf No. V089, not a member of any pack, was trapped last spring near the Ash River and fitted with a GPS collar, as are dozens of wolves being studied by researchers.
Voyageurs Wolf Project is first to put a video camera collar on a wild wolf. 7:01 pm, Apr. 14, 2021 ×
A wolf chews on a leg bone from a deer in this image captured from video footage from a collar-cam. (Courtesy of Voyageurs Wolf Project)
INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. The researchers at the Voyageurs Wolf Project have hit another home run for folks who like learning about wolves, this time retrieving the first known video from a collar camera placed on a live wild wolf.
Lone wolf No. V089, not a member of any pack, was trapped last spring near the Ash River and fitted with a GPS collar, as are dozens of wolves being studied by researchers.
Voyageurs wolf gets his own collar-cam and its a sight to see superiortelegram.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from superiortelegram.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.