Some winters in North Dakota can start early and bring lots of snow with brutal temperatures, and other winters can be mild ...

With many producers in Western Canada getting ready for spring seeding and focusing on their seeded acres, it can be easy to ...

Snow can protect plants from drying winter winds and melting snow provides moisture to the roots of plants coming out of winter dormancy. Windbreaks or shelterbelts are great conservation and ...

The scientists compared different environmental measures in alley-cropping agroforestry (more commonly known as shelterbelts in Western Canada), open fields of crops, or grassland. Their study was ...

Conifers are planted as shelterbelts, windbreaks, living snow fences and winter wildlife thermal cover on farms and in other rural areas. They bear cones and are sometimes called evergreens.