Jul 27, 2026 · 39 min · 12 segments
In this episode of ATTRA’s Voices from the Field, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Nina Prater talks with Sneha Haridas, a 4th year PhD candidate and Graduate Research Assistant at West Virginia University…
Sneha HaridasGuest
Nina PraterHost
There have been instances where farmers have stopped treating livestock and have gone fully organic, but are still not seeing dung beetles.
And the reason is it can take a long time for dung beetles to come back, because years of historical treatment can affect, uh, dung beetles, and they... it- it's hard for them to just come back once you stop, um, treating your, uh, livestock.
So what they can do to speed things up is where my project on rearing dung beetles come in, but first I would probably recommend understanding what species you already have, and I know that's easier said than done.
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There have been instances where farmers have stopped treating livestock and have gone fully organic, but are still not seeing dung beetles.
And the reason is it can take a long time for dung beetles to come back, because years of historical treatment can affect, uh, dung beetles, and they... it- it's hard for them to just come back once you stop, um, treating your, uh, livestock.
So what they can do to speed things up is where my project on rearing dung beetles come in, but first I would probably recommend understanding what species you already have, and I know that's easier said than done.