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A new strategy to help conserve the monarch butterfly has been unveiled in Iowa—and farmers are being asked to join in the effort.

Iowa ag secretary Bill Northey says there are many ways farmers can help, including the establishment of monarch habitat on their farms.

“Areas that are of lower return, edges of fields, right-of-ways, forest land and pasture land as well,” Northey says.

Another way, Northey says, is to avoid spraying patches of milkweed.

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