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Sustainable agriculture research and education in the field : a proceedings / Board on Agriculture, National Research Council.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991Description: ix, 437 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0309045789
Subject(s):
Contents:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture commitment to sustainable agriculture / Charles E. Hess -- Background and status of the low-input sustainable agriculture program / Neill Schaller -- Challenges and rewards of sustainable agriculture research and education / R. James Cook -- Overview of current sustainable agriculture research / John C. Gardner ... [et al.] -- Economic considerations in sustainable agriculture for Midwestern farmers / Michael Duffy -- Comparative study of organic and conventional tomato production systems : an approach to on-farm systems studies / Carol Shennan ... [et al.] -- STEEP : a model for conservation and environmental research and education / Robert I. Papendick.
Soil moisture monitoring : a practical route to irrigation efficiency and farm resource conservation / Gail Richardson -- Research and education in the Western region / Dale R. Darling -- A farmers' perspective / Robert A. Klicker -- Southeastern apple integrated pest management / Dan L. Horton, Douglas G. Pfeiffer, and Floyd F. Hendrix, Jr. -- Low-input crop and livestock systems in the Southeastern United States / John M. Luna ... [et al.] -- Solarization and living mulch to optimize low-input production system for small fruits / Kim Patten ... [et al.] -- Research and education in the South / Raymond E. Frisbie -- New strategies for reducing insecticide use in the corn belt / Gerald R. Sutter and David R. Lance.
On-farm research comparing conventional and low-input sustainable agriculture systems in the northern Great Plains / Thomas L. Dobbs, James D. Smolik, and Clarence Mends -- Low-input, high-forage beef production / Terry Klopfenstein -- Low-input sustainable agriculture projects, Alternative agriculture, and related issues / Harold F. Reetz, Jr. -- Long-term, low-input cropping systems research / Rhonda R. Janke ... [et al.] -- Perspectives for sustainable agriculture from nutrient management experiences in Pennsylvania / Les E. Lanyon -- Use of fungal pathogens for biological control of insect pests / Raymond I. Carruthers, Alan J. Sawyer, and Kirsten Hural -- Time frame for sustainable agriculture and pollution prevention research / Clayton W. Ogg.
Sustainable agriculture research and education in the Northeast / James F. Parr -- Sustainable agriculture research and education in the field / Neil H. Pelsue, Jr. -- Assessing the progress of sustainable agriculture research / Jonathan H. Harsch -- Low-input sustainable agriculture farm decision support system / John E. Ikerd -- Voison controlled grazing management : a better way to farm / William M. Murphy -- Expert systems : an aid to adoption of sustainable agriculture systems / Edwin G. Rajotte and Timothy Bowser.
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Papers based on a workshop held in Washington, D.C., Apr. 3-4, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture commitment to sustainable agriculture / Charles E. Hess -- Background and status of the low-input sustainable agriculture program / Neill Schaller -- Challenges and rewards of sustainable agriculture research and education / R. James Cook -- Overview of current sustainable agriculture research / John C. Gardner ... [et al.] -- Economic considerations in sustainable agriculture for Midwestern farmers / Michael Duffy -- Comparative study of organic and conventional tomato production systems : an approach to on-farm systems studies / Carol Shennan ... [et al.] -- STEEP : a model for conservation and environmental research and education / Robert I. Papendick.

Soil moisture monitoring : a practical route to irrigation efficiency and farm resource conservation / Gail Richardson -- Research and education in the Western region / Dale R. Darling -- A farmers' perspective / Robert A. Klicker -- Southeastern apple integrated pest management / Dan L. Horton, Douglas G. Pfeiffer, and Floyd F. Hendrix, Jr. -- Low-input crop and livestock systems in the Southeastern United States / John M. Luna ... [et al.] -- Solarization and living mulch to optimize low-input production system for small fruits / Kim Patten ... [et al.] -- Research and education in the South / Raymond E. Frisbie -- New strategies for reducing insecticide use in the corn belt / Gerald R. Sutter and David R. Lance.

On-farm research comparing conventional and low-input sustainable agriculture systems in the northern Great Plains / Thomas L. Dobbs, James D. Smolik, and Clarence Mends -- Low-input, high-forage beef production / Terry Klopfenstein -- Low-input sustainable agriculture projects, Alternative agriculture, and related issues / Harold F. Reetz, Jr. -- Long-term, low-input cropping systems research / Rhonda R. Janke ... [et al.] -- Perspectives for sustainable agriculture from nutrient management experiences in Pennsylvania / Les E. Lanyon -- Use of fungal pathogens for biological control of insect pests / Raymond I. Carruthers, Alan J. Sawyer, and Kirsten Hural -- Time frame for sustainable agriculture and pollution prevention research / Clayton W. Ogg.

Sustainable agriculture research and education in the Northeast / James F. Parr -- Sustainable agriculture research and education in the field / Neil H. Pelsue, Jr. -- Assessing the progress of sustainable agriculture research / Jonathan H. Harsch -- Low-input sustainable agriculture farm decision support system / John E. Ikerd -- Voison controlled grazing management : a better way to farm / William M. Murphy -- Expert systems : an aid to adoption of sustainable agriculture systems / Edwin G. Rajotte and Timothy Bowser.

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