Integrating Livestock Into Cropping Systems: Ecosystem Responses From Long-Term Studies

Oral Session

Special Sessions

Managing agricultural production systems for enhanced ecosystem services such as the sequestration of carbon (C) to offset increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and enhanced biodiversity and water conservation is a critical focus of agriculture in the US and worldwide. Integrated crop-livestock systems in semi-arid and humid climates have shown promise for conservation of water, nutrients, soil organic C and increased microbial communities. This symposium is a summary of the long-term research conducted in integrated crop-forage-livestock agroecosystems and their impacts on soil-plant-animal interactions and the economic costs and benefits.

Cosponsor(s):

S03 Soil Biology & Biochemistry, C06 Forage and Grazinglands
Bioenergy Systems Community
Tuesday, October 23, 2012: 9:40 AM-3:45 PM
Duke Energy Convention Center, Room 262, Level 2
Organizer:
Michael Casler
Presider:
Jennifer Moore-Kucera
9:40 AM
Introductory Remarks
9:45 AM
Integrating Crops and Livestock: A ‘Back to the Future' Concept.
Vivien Allen, Texas Tech University; Philip Brown, Texas Tech University; Rick Kellison, Texas Tech University; Paul Green, Texas Tech University
10:35 AM
Impacts of An Integrated Crop-Livestock System On Soil Properties to Enhance Precipitation Capture.
Ted M. Zobeck, USDA-ARS; Deanna H. Faubion, Texas Tech University (Former Affiliation)
10:55 AM
Significant Management Impacts On Intra-Aggregate Soil Fractions.
Lisa M. Fultz, Texas Tech University; Jennifer Moore-Kucera, Texas Tech University; Vivien Allen, Texas Tech University
11:15 AM
Soil Carbon and Soil Organic Matter Quality In Soil Size Fractions From Crop and Livestock Systems In Texas.
Francisco Calderon, USDA-ARS; Lisa M. Fultz, Texas Tech University; Vivien Allen, Texas Tech University; Jennifer Moore-Kucera, Texas Tech University
11:35 AM
Soil Fungal Dynamics In Perennial and Annual Crops of Integrated Crop and Livestock Systems.
Marko Davinic, Texas Tech University; Jennifer Moore-Kucera, Texas Tech University; Vivien Allen, Texas Tech University
11:55 AM
Discussion
11:55 AM
Lunch Break
1:25 PM
Economic Comparison of a Monoculture Cotton System and Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in the Texas High Plains.
Cody J. Zilverberg, South Dakota State University; Philip Johnson, Texas Tech University; Vivien G. Allen, Texas Tech University
2:45 PM
Inter-Annual Variation In Carbon Dioxide and Water Fluxes From a Grazed Pasture In the Semi-Arid Texas High Plains.
Nithya Rajan, Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Stephan Maas, Texas Tech University
3:05 PM
Carbon Release From Steers and Fossil Fuels In Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems.
Cody J. Zilverberg, South Dakota State University; Lisa Fultz, Texas Tech University; Michael Galyean, Texas Tech University; Jennifer Moore-Kucera, Texas Tech University; Vivien G. Allen, Texas Tech University
3:25 PM
Concluding Remarks
3:45 PM
Adjourn
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