51-19 Wheat-Based Cropping System Strategies for Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change.

Poster Number 19

See more from this Division: Agriculture and Natural Resources Science for Climate Variability and Change: Transformational Advancements in Research, Education and Extension
See more from this Session: Project Director Meeting for Agriculture and Natural Resources Science for Climate Variability and Change
Monday, October 22, 2012
Duke Energy Convention Center, Junior Ballroom D, Level 3
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William Pan, Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, David Huggins, Land Management and Water Conservation Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA, Harold Collins, USDA-ARS, Prosser, WA, Kefyalew Girma Desta, Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center, Washington State University, Prosser, WA, Sanford D. Eigenbrode, Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, Aaron Esser, Washington State University, Ritzville, WA, Jodi Johnson-Maynard, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, Chad Kruger, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University, Wenatchee, WA, Stephen Machado, Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center, Oregon State University, Pendleton, OR, Steven Petrie, PO Box 370, Oregon State University, Pendleton, OR, William F. Schillinger, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Lind, WA, Claudio Stockle, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, Frank L. Young, USDA-ARS, Pullman, WA and Kathleen Painter, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Agricultural strategies are needed that meet short- and long-term goals of sustainability under climate change. Proposed mitigation and adaptation strategies for dryland and irrigated wheat-based systems are crop intensification and diversification, conservation tillage, direct seeding, decision support and technology-based improvements in N, water and energy use efficiency, and integration of recyclable C and N soil amendments. As part of the USDA NIFA-funded project “Regional Approaches to Climate Change for Pacific Northwest Agriculture”, a network of new and existing experiment station and on-farm sites has been identified that represent the spectrum of wheat-based cropping systems across large gradients in precipitation, temperature and soils in four predominant agroecological zones of the Pacific Northwest. At each location, alternative management strategies are being evaluated relative to traditional farming practices by monitoring and measuring soil, crop, and atmospheric C, N, and water balances of small plot and field scale studies. Historical data and research findings, coupled with new data from this project will inform crop and socioeconomic models to assess potential impacts of policy and management adoption on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
See more from this Division: Agriculture and Natural Resources Science for Climate Variability and Change: Transformational Advancements in Research, Education and Extension
See more from this Session: Project Director Meeting for Agriculture and Natural Resources Science for Climate Variability and Change