Building Partnerships for Conservation: A Farmer-Tenant Collaboration in Northeast Iowa – Winter Webinar

In this winter webinar, Mary Damm, owner of Prairie Quest Farm near McGregor, Iowa, discusses her successful partnership with her current tenant farmer, who practices rotational grazing with beef cattle. Since purchasing the farm in 2015, Mary has worked with neighboring farmers to graze cool-season pastures with cattle in a manner that creates habitat for nesting grassland birds, whose populations are in steep decline. Mary shares how open communication, respect and helping one another has aligned her conservation goals with those of her tenant, resulting in mutually beneficial projects for the farm’s future.