Iowa State University professor Dr. Marshall McDaniel will be the featured speaker at the Iowa Lakeside Lab Speaker series this week and talks about the topic he will cover.
“I will be talking about using prairie strips as a tool for soil restoration and larger ecosystem service restoration. Eco services are all the things that soils do for us that benefit us.One of them is providing fuel, fiber and food for growing our crops but soils also store water they store carbon they act as a habitat for all the organisms that live in them which we do a lot of our research on. I’ll be talking a little bit about that and what prairies do to soils.”
Dr. McDaniel says prairies and soil health is very important and that there is a regenerative agriculture or soil health movement happening.
“There’s a lot of farmers that are looking at restoring soil health that has been depleted over the years of poor agriculture practices over the past couple centuries and there’s a lot of people real excited to do things like no till adding cover crops and also using prairie strips which is the practice that I’ll focus on on Tuesday.”
You can learn more about the connection between prairies and soil health from Dr. McDaniel, ISU Agronomy professor, on Tuesday night as part of the Lakeside Lab Speaker Series at 7:00 brought to you by the Friends of Lakeside Lab. You can tune into KUOO every Monday at 3:45 for the Lakeside Science Minute.
Click below to hear the full interview with Dr. McDaniel
