Division: Special Sessions

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

Lead Community Sponsor:
Cosponsor: S03 Soil Biology & Biochemistry, C06 Forage and Grazinglands
Community Cosponsor: Bioenergy Systems Community
Format: Oral
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Session Description: 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.

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