Kernza: Pros and Cons

Welcome to Episode 217 of The Spokesman Speaks podcast. In this episode, we talk with a central Iowa corn and soybean farmer who's experimenting with a unique perennial grain: Kernza. Later in the episode, Mykayla Hagaman of the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium explains how Iowa has grown its monarch habitat by more than 10x in just 5 years, while sharing tips for farmers to successfully add pollinator habitat to their fields.

Resources mentioned in this episode

• Register for Iowa Farm Bureau's Economic Summit.
• Learn more about Kernza.
• Apply for Iowa Farm Bureau's Grow Your Future Award.
• Learn more about establishing monarch habitat through the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium.
• Learn about funding opportunities for monarch habitat: ISU Natural Resources Stewardship, FSA CRP, NRCS EQIP, NRCS Ag Conservation Easement Program, NRCS Conservation Stewardship Program, IDALS cost share, DNR REAP
• Register for Iowa Farm Bureau's immersive, two-day farm succession planning workshop.
• Apply for Iowa Farm Bureau's Market Study Tour of India.