Jef Hodges

Working with Dr. Pat Keyser, Center for Native Grasslands Management (CNGM), and a host of local Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) staff, I recently finished

… then I have pollinator habitat! The field pictured, I presume, is the result of my sericea lespedeza management program. The field has a serious

I told myself at the beginning of the year I would do a better job of writing blog posts, trying to write one a month

“Adoption of Natives First by USDA could be the single most important development in restoring bobwhites and declining grassland birds across their ranges. Establishing a

Preface I had the joy and privilege of filming and producing the Firing Up Your Beef Production video. Aside from being an avid hobby photographer,

It’s been a while since I’ve posted to the blog. Part of the reason for that is one of the topics I am covering in

I hate answers that begin with “it depends.” That usually means you are about to be inundated with tons of detailed, probably useless information which

Hardwoods get all the attention this time of year for their fall color but ask me and I say the prairies are just as colorful.

The Fire Summit 2016: Changing Fire Regimes, a regional conference on fire science in the Great Plains, is set for Dec. 7-9, 2016 at the

2015 was the International Year of Soils and the fervor over cover crops that resulted still continues today. It seems every time I turn around