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Modern arable and diverse ley farming systems can increase soil organic matter faster than global targets 现代耕地和多样化列依耕作制度可以比全球目标更快地增加土壤有机质
IF 2.7 3区 农林科学
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1017/s1742170524000103
Richard Gantlett, Jacob Bishop, Hannah E. Jones, Martin Lukac
{"title":"Modern arable and diverse ley farming systems can increase soil organic matter faster than global targets","authors":"Richard Gantlett, Jacob Bishop, Hannah E. Jones, Martin Lukac","doi":"10.1017/s1742170524000103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742170524000103","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture can be pivotal in mitigating climate change through soil carbon sequestration. Land conversion to pasture has been identified as the most effective method to achieve this. Yet, it creates a perceived trade-off between increasing soil carbon and maintaining arable food crop production. In this on-farm study, we assessed the potential of incorporating a 2-year diverse ley (consisting of 23 species of legumes, herbs, and grasses) within a 7-year arable crop rotation for soil organic matter accumulation. We established upper and lower boundaries of soil organic matter accumulation by comparing this approach to positive (permanent ley, akin to conversion to permanent pasture) and negative (bare soil) references. Our findings in the 2-year diverse ley treatment show greater soil organic matter accumulation in plots with lower baseline levels, suggesting a potential plateau of carbon sequestration under this management practice. In contrast, the positive reference consistently showed a steady rate of organic matter accumulation regardless of baseline levels. Moreover, we observed a concurrent increase in labile carbon content in the 2-year ley treatment and positive reference, indicating improved soil nutrient cycling and ecological processes that facilitate soil carbon sequestration. Our results demonstrate that incorporating a 2-year diverse ley within arable rotations surpasses the COP21 global target of a 0.4% annual increase in soil organic carbon. These findings, derived from a working farm's practical and economic constraints, provide compelling evidence that productive arable agriculture can contribute to climate change mitigation efforts.","PeriodicalId":54495,"journal":{"name":"Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142250387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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In the search for pastoral livestock systems that improve the meat quality: An exploratory study 寻找能提高肉质的畜牧系统:探索性研究
IF 2.7 3区 农林科学
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1017/s1742170524000127
Carla Velásquez, David Cancino-Baier, John Quiñones-Diaz, Rodrigo Huaiquipan, Alex Muñoz, Néstor Sepúlveda Becker, Rommy Diaz, Erwin A. Paz, Lidiana Velázquez, Gastón Sepúlveda, Daniela Tapia, Fernanda Olivares
{"title":"In the search for pastoral livestock systems that improve the meat quality: An exploratory study","authors":"Carla Velásquez, David Cancino-Baier, John Quiñones-Diaz, Rodrigo Huaiquipan, Alex Muñoz, Néstor Sepúlveda Becker, Rommy Diaz, Erwin A. Paz, Lidiana Velázquez, Gastón Sepúlveda, Daniela Tapia, Fernanda Olivares","doi":"10.1017/s1742170524000127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742170524000127","url":null,"abstract":"An increasing number of consumers are expressing concerns about the quality, nutrient content, and safety of the meet products they purchase, alongside animal welfare and the environmental footprint of production systems. Various studies show that grassland-based systems can produce a healthier meat product. In this context, livestock farmers are actively pursuing improvements in their systems focus on sustainability, with regenerative livestock farming emerging as a prominent approach. Most research has focused on showing the differences in the quality of meat comparing pastoral systems and those fed concentrates under controlled environments. However, there are no studies in Chile that evaluate the quality of beef derived from different pastoral systems, particularly those consider adequate data and products sourced directly from livestock sector. This study explores three beef production systems commonly used in southern Chile (conventional, free grazing, and regenerative), evaluating their impact on carcass characteristics, meat quality attributes, and nutritional components. The results show some variations in carcass weight and yield, with free grazing showing better results. Deviations in meat color were observed, with conventional meat being more red and yellow while regenerative meat was less bright. Subcutaneous fat color and water retention capacity were influenced by diet and production methods. Although lipid oxidation showed no differences, 100% grazing-based systems exhibited lower values, suggesting a higher intake of antioxidants. The research highlights the nutritional superiority of beef from grasslands, characterized by a lower intramuscular fat content and higher values of minerals, such as selenium. The complex multifactorial interaction of pastoral systems is also highlighted, impacting the carcass and meat quality. A holistic approach is essential in future research to generate and assess healthy beef.","PeriodicalId":54495,"journal":{"name":"Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142250383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Understanding the potential of sustainability turn in farming: review of sociotechnical adoption factors of agri-environmental cropping practices 了解农业可持续性转变的潜力:农业环境耕作方法的社会技术采用因素回顾
IF 2.7 3区 农林科学
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.1017/s1742170524000085
Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica, Mikelis Grivins
{"title":"Understanding the potential of sustainability turn in farming: review of sociotechnical adoption factors of agri-environmental cropping practices","authors":"Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica, Mikelis Grivins","doi":"10.1017/s1742170524000085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742170524000085","url":null,"abstract":"While farming practices such as intercropping, cover cropping, and green manuring are promoted as contributors to environment-friendly agriculture by balancing agricultural production with environmental sustainability, their uptake by farmers has still been limited. This paper provides a holistic global view of the adoption factors of such agri-environmental cropping practices based on a systematic literature review of 53 international peer-reviewed articles. Qualitative analysis of the reviewed studies shows that adoption factors explored by researchers can be categorized along nine thematic groups (sociodemographic characteristics, socioeconomic/financial conditions, environmental conditions, tangible assets and inventory, pre-existing farm practices, agrotechnical aspects of the practice, public support instruments, information and knowledge resources, community dynamics) and two transversal dimensions (generic and practice-specific attitudes), with an additional differentiation of micro- and macro-levels within the former. While many individual factors across the various groups and dimensions are highly context sensitive in terms of their impact on practice adoption, the analysis also identifies a set of factors that demonstrate common trends across the studies. The offered holistic conceptualization and analysis of the adoption factors of the reviewed set of practices contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the broader potential impact pathways in the farmer reorientation toward sustainable crop production.","PeriodicalId":54495,"journal":{"name":"Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140938705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Farmers’ resilience to climate change through the circular economy and sustainable agriculture: a review from developed and developing countries 通过循环经济和可持续农业提高农民抵御气候变化的能力:发达国家和发展中国家综述
IF 2.7 3区 农林科学
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.1017/s1742170524000097
Yahya Shafiyuddin Hilmi, József Tóth, Zoltán Gabnai, Gábor Király, Ágoston Temesi
{"title":"Farmers’ resilience to climate change through the circular economy and sustainable agriculture: a review from developed and developing countries","authors":"Yahya Shafiyuddin Hilmi, József Tóth, Zoltán Gabnai, Gábor Király, Ágoston Temesi","doi":"10.1017/s1742170524000097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742170524000097","url":null,"abstract":"Farmers struggle to combat uncertain climate issues while encountering pressure on conventional farming practices that lead to carbon emissions, water and soil pollution, and other environmental harms. A growing body of literature investigated circular economy and sustainable practices to support environmental-friendly agriculture activities while providing opportunities for farmers to improve their farm income. Therefore, a study synthesizing previous literature while identifying actual policy to boost farmers’ implementation of sustainable agriculture is worthwhile. Using the Systematic Literature Review analysis, this paper aims to identify farmers’ views on climate change adaptation and mitigation, challenges in implementing circular economy and sustainable practices, and policies to support farmers’ transition toward sustainable agriculture in developed and developing countries. We found that (1) farmers’ awareness of climate change, knowledge and skills are prominent for adapting and mitigating climate change in both types of countries, (2) farmland size, risks of income loss, and training and extension services influenced farmers’ adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change in developing countries, (3) farmers in both types of countries experienced uncertainty in economic profits and legislative issues when adopting sustainable practices, while farmers in developing countries issued significant up-front expenses to acquire technology to adopt sustainable practices, (4) financial access and incentives through policy can be valuable to develop sustainable livelihoods, especially for farm households.","PeriodicalId":54495,"journal":{"name":"Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140938298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Strategies to overcome stagnation in agricultural adoption despite awareness and interest: a case study of conservation agriculture in South Asia 克服在提高认识和兴趣的情况下农业应用停滞不前的战略:南亚保护性农业案例研究
IF 2.7 3区 农林科学
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-04-23 DOI: 10.1017/s1742170524000073
E. Karki, A. Sharma, P. Timsina, A. Chaudhary, R. Sharma, B. Brown
{"title":"Strategies to overcome stagnation in agricultural adoption despite awareness and interest: a case study of conservation agriculture in South Asia","authors":"E. Karki, A. Sharma, P. Timsina, A. Chaudhary, R. Sharma, B. Brown","doi":"10.1017/s1742170524000073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742170524000073","url":null,"abstract":"The Eastern Gangetic Plains are a densely populated region of South Asia with comparatively low productivity yet a strong potential to intensify production to meet growing food demands. Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification (CASI) has gained academic and policy traction in the region, yet despite considerable promotional activities, uptake remains limited. Based on emerging evidence delving beyond a binary classification of adoption, this qualitative study seeks to explore the experiences and perspectives of smallholder farmers who express positive sentiments about CASI, yet have not progressed to (autonomous) adoption. After thematic coding of semi-structured interviews with 44 experimenting farmers and 38 interested non-users, ten common themes emerged that explain why farmers stagnate in their adoption process. Seven of the ten themes were non-specific to CASI and would constraint promotion and uptake of any agri-system change, highlighting the need for contextual clarity when promoting practice changes in smallholder systems. We summaries this to propose the ‘four T's’ that are required to be addressed to enable agricultural change in smallholder systems: Targeting; Training; Targeted incentives; and Time. Through this more nuanced evaluation approach, we argue the need for a stronger focus on enabling environments rather than technological performance evaluations generically, if promotional efforts are to be successful and emerging sustainable intensification technologies are to be adopted by smallholder farmers.","PeriodicalId":54495,"journal":{"name":"Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140798144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Impact of agroecological practices on farm performance in Botswana 生态农业实践对博茨瓦纳农场绩效的影响
IF 2.7 3区 农林科学
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1017/s1742170524000036
Obakeng Tevin Selelo, Gideon Danso-Abbeam, Abiodun A. Ogundeji
{"title":"Impact of agroecological practices on farm performance in Botswana","authors":"Obakeng Tevin Selelo, Gideon Danso-Abbeam, Abiodun A. Ogundeji","doi":"10.1017/s1742170524000036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742170524000036","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the potential of agroecological practices to promote sustainable agrifood systems, their adoption among farmers is limited, and there is insufficient information regarding their impact on farm performance. This study evaluates the adoption of agroecological practices and their impact on farm performance among vegetable farmers in Botswana. The multivariate probit model was used to understand the complementarity and/or substitutability of the key agroecological practices under consideration—mulching, cover cropping, afforestation, and minimum tillage, as well as their determinants. Furthermore, the direct two-stage least squares (direct-2sls) technique within the framework of instrumental variable treatment effect regression (<jats:italic>ivtreatreg</jats:italic>) was used to eliminate self-selection bias that may be evident as a result of observed and unobserved characteristics. The results indicated that the agroecological practices are complementary and that the practice of one agroecology is conditional on another. The factors shaping the adoption of these agroecological practices vary among them. Furthermore, the adoption of agroecological practices led to a significant improvement in farmers' net revenue and yield, and farmers that did not adopt any of the practices would have been better off if they had adopted them. These findings have significant implications for stakeholders and will boost the campaign for the adoption of agroecological practices to improve farm performance and, consequently, farmers' welfare.","PeriodicalId":54495,"journal":{"name":"Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140615110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Moving conservation agriculture from principles to a performance-based production system 将保护性农业从原则转变为基于绩效的生产系统
IF 2.7 3区 农林科学
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1017/s1742170524000048
Stéphane Cordeau
{"title":"Moving conservation agriculture from principles to a performance-based production system","authors":"Stéphane Cordeau","doi":"10.1017/s1742170524000048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742170524000048","url":null,"abstract":"Conservation agriculture (CA) is an approach to farming that is defined by three principles: (1) minimal soil disturbance (no-till), (2) crop diversity in time and space, and (3) soil coverage by crop residues and/or cover crops. These principles provide a roadmap to protect and improve soil. However, the narrow criteria for defining CA may fail to account for tradeoffs between soil health and other ecosystem services. A literature review of meta-analyses dealing with CA and an online survey in France were conducted to explore the implementation and performances of CA. Research on CA systems has focused on crop productivity and soil quality whereas research on other dimensions of cropping system sustainability are lacking. The effects of CA on other aspects of sustainability such as biodiversity and profitability are less prevalent in the literature. The online survey results show that 63% of respondents thought that CA helps reduce pesticide use, 91% that CA improves water use efficiency, and 77% that CA helps to store carbon and achieve the objectives of the 4 per 1000 international initiative. Given the prevalence and widespread support for CA, we advocate for moving CA from its current definition based on the means toward a definition that includes performance-based metrics that address different ecosystem services. CA has potential to help address challenges associated with climate change, biodiversity loss, and water pollution, but opportunities may be missed without developing performance targets that go beyond soil conservation.","PeriodicalId":54495,"journal":{"name":"Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140156430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Understanding sustained adoption of conservation agriculture among smallholder farmers: insights from a sentinel site in Malawi 了解小农持续采用保护性农业的情况:马拉维一个哨点的启示
IF 2.7 3区 农林科学
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1017/s1742170524000061
Innocent Pangapanga-Phiri, Hambulo Ngoma, Christian Thierfelder
{"title":"Understanding sustained adoption of conservation agriculture among smallholder farmers: insights from a sentinel site in Malawi","authors":"Innocent Pangapanga-Phiri, Hambulo Ngoma, Christian Thierfelder","doi":"10.1017/s1742170524000061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742170524000061","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Smallholder farming systems need climate-proofing and sustainable intensification practices such as conservation agriculture (CA), are promising options. However, there is a general perception that the adoption of CA systems in southern Africa is low. Sentinel sites, where CA has been promoted for a long time, offer forward-looking new insights. This paper, thus, takes a deep dive at Nkhotakota district of Malawi to understand what could have led to the success of CA promotion and subsequent perceived high adoption. We use survey data from 620 farmers, with 298 farmers sampled from treatment areas – known to have had contact with host farmers and 320 from a control group. Overall, 31% of the farmers in both groups adopted full CA over at least a 2-year period. We also find that about 57% of farmers in the treatment area adopted full CA and only 7% of farmers in the control areas. This highlights that longer-term CA promotion with dedicated extension support can enhance the uptake of CA practices. In essence, this paper offers a different perspective to the current narrative that CA systems are too complex and knowledge intensive to be adopted despite its long-term promotion and significant investments. However, there are some nuances: sustained adoption even in sentinel sites is neither 100% nor persistent over the long term. We find an appreciable adoption decay, showing large declines from highs of 57 and 7% in adoption for at least 2 years for treatment and control, respectively, to 12% in the treatment group and practically zero in the control when we condition full CA adoption to at least 7 years. This means that fewer farmers adopted CA for a longer period and suggests some dis-adoption over time even in sentinel sites. The key adoption enablers in the sentinel sites include the availability of training, dedicated longer-term extension support coupled with farmer experiential learning through demonstration plots managed by host farmers. Based on our findings, there is need to consistently promote CA using farmer-centric approaches that include peer-to-peer learning over long periods. This allows farmers time to experiment with different CA options, enable behavioral and lasting change. At policy level, there is need to build and strengthen farmer groups to facilitate easier access to inputs like leguminous crop seeds for farmers practicing CA and to offer market-smart incentives to induce initial adoption in the short term to facilitate sustained adoption.</p>","PeriodicalId":54495,"journal":{"name":"Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140106442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Integrating pastured meat chickens into organic vegetable production increased nitrogen and microbial biomass with variability in presence of E. coli and Salmonella spp 将牧养肉鸡纳入有机蔬菜生产,增加了氮和微生物生物量,但大肠杆菌和沙门氏菌的存在有变化
IF 2.7 3区 农林科学
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1017/s1742170524000012
Moriah T. Bilenky, Ajay Nair, Marshall D. McDaniel, Angela M. Shaw, Elizabeth A. Bobeck, Kathleen Delate
{"title":"Integrating pastured meat chickens into organic vegetable production increased nitrogen and microbial biomass with variability in presence of E. coli and Salmonella spp","authors":"Moriah T. Bilenky, Ajay Nair, Marshall D. McDaniel, Angela M. Shaw, Elizabeth A. Bobeck, Kathleen Delate","doi":"10.1017/s1742170524000012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742170524000012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Integrating animals into a farm supports a closed or semi-closed production system where nutrients are recycled and off-farm inputs are reduced. In comparison to other livestock, chickens can be a low-investment option for animal-crop integration of small-scale, diversified, vegetable farms. Although crop-animal integration poses many potential benefits to farms, soils, and the environment, there are significant food safety risks when considering the production of vegetables in close proximity to raw manure. The objectives of this study were to examine the effects of poultry integration with meat chickens (broilers) in two different seasons on soil health, food safety, vegetable yield, and poultry feed efficiency in organic vegetable cropping systems. We explored these effects in an open field study with three rotation treatments (two that integrated chickens and a no-chicken control): vegetables-cover crop (V-CC; control treatment), vegetables-cover crop-poultry (V-CC-P), and vegetables-poultry-cover crop (V-P-CC). In response to crop rotation, over three years, we monitored soil nutrient status, soil microbial biomass carbon (MBC), permanganate oxidizable carbon (POXC), and microbial catabolic potential and diversity using Biolog® microplates. The presence or absence of foodborne pathogens in soil and vegetables was also measured. Nitrate–nitrogen (NO<span>3</span>–N) was higher in V-P-CC in year 2 as compared to both V-CC and V-CC-P (<span>P</span> = 0.001 and &lt;0.001, respectively). After poultry removal in the summer of year 2 and year 3 V-P-CC was on average two times higher in NO<span>3</span>–N as compared to V-CC and V-CC-P, respectively. After chicken removal in the autumn of year 3 V-CC-P was 2.1 and 1.8 times higher in NO<span>3</span>–N as compared to V-CC and V-P-CC, respectively. On average phosphorus (P) increased by 45% in year 2 and by 13.2% in year 3. Microbial biomass carbon (MBC) increased from after harvest (summer) in year 1 to the end of the season (autumn) of year 2 from 219.75 to 303.23 mg carbon (C) kg<span>−1</span>. Integrating poultry increased MBC by 25%, on average between both treatments across all sampling dates, compared to the V-CC (<span>P</span> = 0.042). The vegetable-cover crop control (V-CC) preferentially used carbohydrates, compared to V-P-CC which corresponded to greater amino acid usage. <span>Escherichia coli</span> O157:H7 was detected in all plots in the spring of year 3 and select replications of plots in the autumn of year 3. <span>Salmonella</span> spp. was found in one plot in year 2. No pathogens were detected on the spinach crop when leaf surfaces were tested. Integrating chickens into organic vegetable crop rotations increases NO<span>3</span>–N and has the potential for off-farm fertilizer reductions if time and stocking density are further examined. However, poultry feed is often an off-farm input and should be considered when determining the true N input of this system. Soil health ma","PeriodicalId":54495,"journal":{"name":"Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140106542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Assessing forage research and education needs of organic dairy farms in the United States 评估美国有机奶牛场的饲草研究和教育需求
IF 2.7 3区 农林科学
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1017/s1742170523000455
Eric Hatungimana, Heather M. Darby, Kathy J. Soder, Sara E. Ziegler, Andre F. Brito, Lisa Kissing Kucek, Heathcliffe Riday, E. Charles Brummer
{"title":"Assessing forage research and education needs of organic dairy farms in the United States","authors":"Eric Hatungimana, Heather M. Darby, Kathy J. Soder, Sara E. Ziegler, Andre F. Brito, Lisa Kissing Kucek, Heathcliffe Riday, E. Charles Brummer","doi":"10.1017/s1742170523000455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1742170523000455","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The viability of organic dairy operations in the United States (US) relies on forage production. The objectives of this study were to (1) assess producer and farm information regarding current forage production practices and producer knowledge gaps and (2) identify forage research and educational needs of organic dairy producers across the US. A survey was distributed to 643 organic dairy producers across the US, with 165 respondents (26% response rate). A focus group consisting of extension professionals, university researchers and staff, consultants, dairy industry representatives and organic dairy producers was also consulted for forage research needs. Results showed that approximately half (51%) of surveyed producers were somewhat satisfied with their forage production systems and sometimes experienced negative weather-related impacts on forage yield and quality. A majority (64%) of producers felt their knowledge to meet farm goals was adequate but they reported a lack of resources to implement this knowledge especially for balancing high-forage diets and selecting soil amendments. This study revealed that 54% of producers rely on peer experiences as information resources to make decisions on forage programs. Producer knowledge gaps included pasture renovation with reduced or no-tillage, forage mixtures that match their needs, and forage management practices aiming for high-quality forage. Based on the survey and focus group findings, forage research and educational activities should foster climate change resilience regarding forage diversity adapted to local and regional climatic conditions, improve forage quality, enhance economic returns from soil fertility amendments and pasture renovation, and introduce new forages and forage mixtures that suit economical, agronomical, and environmental needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":54495,"journal":{"name":"Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140054540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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