MINNEAPOLIS — With world demand for both food and fuel projected to double in the next 50 years, researchers at the University of Minnesota are looking for ways to take the burden off of corn as a ...

Louisiana Grass Roots', an independent documentary, will air on Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) and details the story of ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 1, 2025. Click here for that audio. The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even ...

This will be the first in a series of articles on our native prairie grasses that can be used to enhance your yard. But first we need to know a bit more about prairies. Prairies are our heritage and ...

A pocket prairie is a small garden in a landscape that includes native prairie grasses and wildflowers. Folks in a suburban or urban setting can have a natural area in their yard while providing ...

Fifth graders from Betsy Leeker's class gather in a circle to talk about what they found in prairie grasses last month at Wohlwend Elementary School in Oakville. A grant from the Missouri Department ...

In a region known for its hill and forests, vast tracts of prairie dot the Ozarks landscape. Flat acres of grassland, nearly devoid of trees, are found in Northwest Arkansas, northeast Oklahoma and ...

Wildlife as big as bison and as small as quail share thousands of prairie acres with wildflowers and tall native grass at Prairie State Park in southwestern Missouri. The 4,000-acre state park ...