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Title:   Author  item
                                            Kronberg, Scottitem
                                            JOHNSON, W - South Dakota State Universityitem
                                            Archer, Daviditem
                                            ZILVERBERG, CODY - South Dakota State Universityitem
                                            BOE, ARVID - South Dakota State Universityitem
                                            SCHUMACHER, TOM - South Dakota State University
  Submitted to: Meeting Abstract
                                    Publication Type: Abstract Only
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 5/15/2014
                                    Publication  Date: N/A
                                    Citation: N/AInterpretive Summary:
                                Technical Abstract: Tallgrass prairie has been replaced by corn and soybeans and mixed-grass prairie is being replaced by various annual crops.  Annual crop fields support vegetarian diets but not much wildlife.  Alternatively, integrating pastured livestock farming with annual crops can provide wildlife habitat.  For example, a farm in South Dakota, surrounded by corn and soybean fields, restored 203 ha (500 ac) to tallgrass prairie and generates income from grass-based farming.  Assuming farmers provided labor, net income was $60,000 in 2012 (5th year) and is expected to grow.  Bobolinks, dickcissels, grasshopper sparrows, meadowlarks, and upland sandpipers were abundant nesters.  Bobolink numbers reached 50 males per 100 ha in 2012.  There have been significant increases in amphibians in restored wetlands especially spring peepers and western chorus frogs.  These results indicate potential for increasing wildlife on the Great Plains when grass-based farming is added to landscape dominated by annual crops.


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