AMES, Iowa, July 26 (TNSres) -- Iowa State University issued the following news release: Strategically planting perennial grass throughout corn and soybean fields helps address the unintended environmental consequences of growing the dominant row crops, including soil erosion, fertilizer runoff and greenhouse gas emissions. But converting portions of farmland back to prairie has to make financial sense for farmers, which is why a research team led by Iowa State University landscape ecologist L  more

DECORAH, Iowa, July 25 -- Luther College issued the following news: Orcun Selcuk, assistant professor of political science at Luther College, recently published "The Authoritarian Divide: Populism, Propaganda, and Polarization," which examines the relationship between populism and polarization through leaders in Turkey, Venezuela, and Ecuador. "The book makes the argument that in this age of personalization of politics, which means politics is more about personalities rather than policy, that  more