Awardee Name
North Carolina State University (PI: Orr)
Grant Type
State
Project Title
Evaluation of Prairie Plant Quail Habitat Borders to Enhance Pollinators and Biological Control of Crop Pests
Awardee State/Territory
North Carolina
Involved States/territories
North Carolina
Award Year
2006
End Date
Award Amount
$43,900.00
Production/Use
Farmland Agricultural
Resource Concern (Broad)
Habitat
Resource Concern (Specific)
Pollinator habitat
Conservation Practice(s)
Field Border
Project Background
Deployed a demonstration project that tested and evaluated the planting of native prairie vegetation on crop field borders to enhance populations of native pollinators, crop pest predators and parasites, as well as quail.
Project targeted to Historically Underserved producers?
No