Corn-shaped seed pellets to boost habitat for monarchs, bees
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Corn-shaped seed pellets to boost habitat for monarchs, bees
Credit: Kannar Earth Science/ProvidedMultiseed pellets allow farmers to use corn planting machines to plant milkweed and wildflowers.
Crop fields are low in biodiversity, but farmers may soon be part of the solution thanks to a Cornell innovation that allows growers to use corn or other crop seed planting machines to plant strips of milkweed or wildflowers next to their fields.
Cornell researchers are currently working with industry partners to scale up a multiseed pellet technology that are the same shape and density as corn seeds, so they work in planters.
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