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Wildflower Strips Attract Beneficial Insects That Naturally Control Crop Pests
Julian Gold grows flowers he will never harvest, and every hectare of them costs him money. Gold manages about 750 hectares at Hendred Farm Partnership in Oxfordshire, on the edge of the Berkshire Downs. The in-field wildflower strips running through his crops cost £776.02 per hectare once you count the grain he gives up to…
Wildflower Strips Attract Pest-Eating Insects and Cut the Need for Pesticides
Picture a working farm field cut through with bright ribbons of wildflowers, oxeye daisies and red clover swaying among the crops. It looks like decoration, a pleasant flourish at the margins of serious agriculture. It is, in fact, something closer to a hidden defense system. Those strips of flowers are quietly recruiting an army, and…