Published Nov 1, 2021

Beneficial Insects – Bringing Back the Edges

By Practical Farmers of Iowa

Learn how and why two vegetable growers – Mark Quee of West Branch and Jake Kundert of Solon – use beetle banks and pollinator habitat to increase beneficial insect populations on the farm in this episode of Bringing Back the Edges: Creating Wildlife Habitat on Farms.

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