Lesson 6 – Tree Swallows Helping Farmers Fight Pests

Learn how growers are utilizing Tree Swallows to manage flies in cattle operations, and ways to support these birds on farms. 

Start Time is 11:00 AM Central Time

Presenters:

Brian and Mary Keeter own and operate Harmony Hills Farm near Leslie, Missouri, where they practice regenerative agriculture and rotational grazing with cattle, chickens, and pigs. They specialize in direct-to-consumer grass-fed beef while developing silvopasture on their farm.

David Winkler was Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University from 1988 through 2019. With dozens of students and colleagues, he studied Tree Swallows breeding in Ithaca, NY, and he led studies of the breeding biology of all the Tree Swallow’s most closely related six species from Alaska to Argentina. He and two of his students authored the species account for the Tree Swallow for the Birds of North America project in 2011.

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Continued Education Credits: We are offering 1 CCA credit from American Society of Agronomy.

Header photo: Tree Swallows on nest box by Gary Paakksonen