Gary Van Ryswyk

Prepping Prairie Strips for the Real World

January 27, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog, Water
birds, Gary Van Ryswyk, grasses, grassland birds, Land Stewardship Project, Matt Helmers, Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, nitrogen pollution, Pauline Drobney, perennial plants, pollinators, prairie, row crops, runoff, sediment, soil erosion, STRIPs, water quality

Gary Van Ryswyk’s concern for how his farming methods impact the landscape is obvious. A practitioner of a no-till system that avoids disturbing a field’s surface as much as possible, he is…