Session: Integrated Crop Livestock Systems and Their Impacts on Soils Oral

Division: SSSA Division: Soils and Environmental Quality

Title: Integrated Crop Livestock Systems and Their Impacts on Soils Oral

Lead Community Sponsor:
Cosponsor: ASA Section: Environmental Quality
Community Cosponsor: Animal Agriculture and the Environment Community
Format: Oral Topical Session
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Session Description: Integrated crop-livestock systems can enhance ecological interactions that can improve nutrient cycling and preserving natural resources, thereby benefiting soil health by utilizing products of one for the growth of the other. These systems, as an example, involve rotations of cover crops (CC) and cash crops with the livestock grazing of CC and crop residue after harvest of the main crop. Other benefits include improvement in soil structure, weed control, pest control, soil fertility, and overall efficient utilization of natural resources, as well as crop yields. These CC systems, are helpful in erosion control and soil carbon storage.