Division: ASA Section: Agronomic Production Systems

Title: Resource Utilization in Multi-Crop Family Farm Systems

Lead Community Sponsor: Solar Corridor Crop System Community
Cosponsor:
Community Cosponsor: Cover Crop Management Community, Field Diagnosis for Smallholder Agriculture Community
Format: Oral Topical Session
Keywords: agroecologymixed cropsresource use efficiencysmall farms

Session Description: Many small farms and small land holders have mixed cropping systems that have significantly different resource application and use patterns than are found in large-scale monocrop systems. These systems may employ true intercrops, relay crops, silvi-pasture, silvi-cropping, or simply several crops in small plots adjacent to one another. Crops compete in time and space for resources in these systems.  Resources may include light, water, nutrients (native or applied), space, mechanical and human inputs, time, and others. This session invites presentations on all aspects of resource allocation in mixed crop farm systems.

Reviewer's Comments: As of Thursday Jan. 30 at 1 p.m. CT, this is a draft. This is my first time submitting a session for ASA. We are not done soliciting potential partner sections and communities and I am not going to list any until we have firm commitments.