The panic, man... is not needed Go create guilds using these plants: Sunflowers Indian Mustard Willows Poplars / Hybrid Poplars Indian Grass Switchgrass Big Bluestem Alfalfa Clovers Industrial Hemp Jerusalem Artichoke Along with oyster or other white-rot mushrooms

Was finally able to get out to the small property and change cam batteries, the highlight tho are the switchgrass pockets I planted 3 years ago, most over my head now (at least 6 ft), great to see the deer bedding along the edges now as opposed I before they wouldn’t

Approximately 85% of Iowa was once tallgrass prairie. Big bluestem, switchgrass, Indian grass, compass plant. Root systems that went down ten to fifteen feet and built some of the deepest, richest topsoil on the planet. Grazed by tens of millions of bison, two million elk, and uncountable smaller herbivores, all ruminants, all cycling nutrients back into the ground every time they ate, walked, slept, or died. Today, 99.9% of Iowa's original prairie is gone. Less than 0.1% remains as intact ecosystem. By landscape transformation, Iowa is the most ecologically rewritten state in the United States. Approximately 74% of its land area is now row crop. 86% of that row crop is corn or soybeans. Mile after mile of two species, planted in straight lines, harvested with combines that cost more than the farmhouse, fed synthetic nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, sprayed with glyphosate, atrazine, and dicamba, drained through buried plastic tile to remove the water the prairie used to hold for free. The Iowan does not eat the corn. 40% of US corn becomes ethanol fuel. 36% becomes livestock feed. A further chunk becomes high-fructose corn syrup, which becomes Coca-Cola and Twinkies. A small fraction reaches a human plate as actual corn. The Iowan does not eat the soybean either. The soybean is crushed for oil, which becomes the cooking fat in almost every fast-food restaurant in America. The leftover meal feeds chickens and pigs. In 1950, Iowa had 206,000 farmers. In 2026, it has 85,000. The land has consolidated into the hands of fewer, larger operations. The small towns have hollowed out. Iowa, which sits on some of the finest soil ever inventoried by humans, now imports more than 90% of the food its residents actually eat. In March 2024, a valve at NEW Cooperative in Red Oak was left open over a weekend. 265,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen fertiliser drained into the East Nishnabotna River. The spill killed approximately 750,000 fish across 50 miles of river, all the way to the Missouri border. It is the fifth-largest fish kill in Iowa's recorded history. The valve was open for 48 hours. This is the system we have been told is feeding the world. What it is feeding, primarily, is itself. The corn feeds the ethanol plant and the feedlot. The soybean feeds the chicken house and the fryer. The system grows because it needs its own outputs to keep going. The bison would have done all of this for free. The bison would not have killed 750,000 fish. The bison would not have required a single bag of synthetic nitrogen. The bison would not have hollowed out a single town. The bison did this job for ten thousand years, on the same land, with no inputs, and produced, as a byproduct, the deepest topsoil on the continent. We replaced the bison with the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet, on its own, is starting to look like a poor trade.

The one mistake everyone makes with switchgrass 🌾 #switchgrass #deermanagement

That's mostly henbit and dandelions with some other non-grass species in there. Look for some native north american grasses like big bluestem or switchgrass if you want to truly touch grass.

Crusoe disclosed it has paused development on the 1.8 GW Project Jade campus near Cheyenne, Wyoming, "at the request of our customer," the still-undisclosed tenant. The Wyoming project pairs Crusoe's data center with on-site generation built by Tallgrass, providing approximately 1,150 MW of behind-the-meter generation at the Switchgrass Industrial Park outside Cheyenne. Tallgrass received Mitsubishi turbines for the project in May 2026 after beginning construction. Crusoe framed it as a hold rather than a cancellation and did not name a restart timeline. #natgas #datacenter criterionrsch.com

If "let your lawn grow wild" makes the neighbors cock an eyebrow, try a different frame: a pocket prairie. A pocket prairie is a small patch of native grasses and wildflowers, anywhere from a garden bed to acres of land, planted where turf used to be. The plants are the ones that belong: little bluestem, switchgrass, coneflower, milkweed, aster. Their roots run feet deep instead of inches, so they shrug off drought, soak up stormwater before it floods the street, and pull carbon down into the soil. Above ground they feed bees and birds a lawn never could. The trick that keeps the peace is the border. Mow a clean edge around it, or frame it with a strip of mulch or stone, and the eye reads the whole thing as deliberate. A crisp border around tall plants says "garden." The same plants with no edge say "abandoned." It's the same plants either way. The frame is doing the talking. To start: pick a sunny spot, smother the turf under cardboard and mulch over a season, then plug or seed in natives and water until they root.

When using herbicide to thin stands of Switchgrass, 1 or 2 mile per hour makes all the difference. #habitatmanagement #switchgrass

Uma caçada perigosa, pistas sombrias e um criminoso à solta... 🔍😱 Neste sábado (06), às 23h, o Super Tela exibe “Meia-Noite no Switchgrass”, com Bruce Willis e Megan Fox, na tela da RECORD. Você conseguiria desvendar esse caso? 👀🔥

So, useless fact. My property is a few miles from small farming community. We call the dark green patches of grass, switchgrass. It's develops straight rigid blades. In the early 1900s there was broom "factory" in that little town (20 families). Brooms made from this grass.

🎞️ FILMES DA SEMANA na TV (06 a 12/06/2026): • Sábado 06/06 04h00 #EstaçãoCinema (Band) URI - Forças Especiais 04h40 #Corujão (Globo) L.O.C.A. 14h35 #SessãoDeSábado (Globo) O Mentiroso 14h45 Mar Negro 15h00 #CineAventura (Record) Herança de Sangue 16h00 #SessãoDeCinema (TV Brasil) Peixonauta – Agente Secreto da O.S.T.R.A. 23h15 #SuperTela (Record) Meia-noite no Switchgrass 02h00 #CinePrivé (Band) Floresta da Perdição 02h25 #Corujão (Globo) O Livro do Amor • Domingo 07/06 04h00 #Corujão (Globo) Somos Todos Iguais 04h00 #CinemaNaMadrugada (Band) Na Mira do Inimigo 12h30 #CineMaior (Record) O Alvo 2 13h40 #TemperaturaMáxima (Globo) Matrix Ressurrections 16h00 #DomingoNoCinema (Band) O Medalhão 16h00 #SessãoDeCinema (TV Brasil) Isto É Pelé 17h15 #SessãoDeCinema (TV Brasii) Oco 21h30 #SessãoDeCinema (TV Brasil) A Alma Quer Voar 23h00 #SessãoDeCinema (TV Brasil) Dois Tempos 00h25 #DomingoMaior (Globo) Operações Especiais 00h45 #SessãoDeCinema (TV Brasil) Ralé 02h05 #Cinemaço (Globo) Coma - A Dimensão do Futuro • Segunda 08/06 15h30 #SessãoDaTarde (Globo) Todo Tempo Que Temos 21h00 e 03h00 #SessãoDeCinema (TV Brasil) Ladrões de Cinema 23h15 #TelaQuente (Globo) Rodeio Rock • Terça 09/06 15h25 #SessãoDaTarde (Globo) Meu Sangue Ferve Por Você 22h00 e 04h00 #SessãoDeCinema (TV Brasil) Revoada • Quarta 10/06 15h25 #SessãoDaTarde (Globo) Case Comigo 21h00 e 03h00 #SessãoDeCinema (TV Brasil) O Que é Isso, Companheiro 22h20 #CineClube (Band) Rápida Vingança • Quinta 11/06 21h00 e 03h00 #SessãoDeCinema (TV Brasil) Se Arrependimento Matasse 01h55 #Corujão (Globo) A Divisão • Sexta 12/06 15h25 #SessãoDaTarde (Globo) Por Toda Minha a Minha Vida 21h00 #SessãoDeCinema (TV Brasil) Pajeú 02h40 #Corujão (Globo) Plano B

Production Performance and Ameliorative Effects of Switchgrass on Severely Saline‐Alkali Land in Coastal Areas of China 🔗 buff.ly/0dvK62X

A research team led in part by an Iowa State agronomy professor combined public data with designed experiments to discover how different variants of switchgrass adapt to their environment, causing the plant to flower earlier in northern latitudes. 📰go.iastate.edu/PNP79P

An ugly second year stand of Switchgrass isn't always a bad thing. #Habitat

Remove grazing from grassland for 20 years and you get a brush lot. Zero grass. Woody species take over. Outside the fence at Dixon Water Foundation's Leo Ranch in North Texas? Native little bluestem, switchgrass, side oats — thriving. They built exclusion pens to prove what happens when cattle leave. The land dies without them. Prairie ecosystems need grazing to stay prairie. Period. Find ranchers who graze with purpose 👇 BeefMaps.com

Post Oak Energy Capital Announces Sale of Switchgrass E&P Holdco, LLC - businesswire.com/news/home/2…

Two new genera of Magnaporthaceae (Magnaporthales, Sordariomycetes) associated with switchgrass... - goo.gl/scholar/pC883U #ScholarAlerts

Little Bluestem, Big Bluestem, Indian Grass and Switchgrass - all fantastic native options. No need for nonnative ornamentals.