scholarly journals Sustainable Cropping Systems

Agronomy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 494
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Coulter
Keyword(s):  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Soil Improvement ◽  
First Century ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Best Management ◽  
Ecological Principles

Crop production must increase substantially to meet the needs of a rapidly growing human population, but this is constrained by the availability of resources such as nutrients, water, and land. There is also an urgent need to reduce negative environmental impacts from crop production. Collectively, these issues represent one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century. Sustainable cropping systems based on ecological principles, appropriate use of inputs, and soil improvement are the core for integrated approaches to solve this grand challenge. This special issue includes several review and original research articles on these topics for an array of cropping systems, which can advise implementation of best management practices and lead to advances in agronomics for sustainable intensification of crop production.

scholarly journals Efficiency and Equity Aspects of Nonpoint Source Pollution Controls

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stan R. Spurlock ◽  
Ivery D. Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Conservation Tillage ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Pollution Abatement ◽  
Optimal Level ◽  
Best Management ◽  
Federal Water Pollution Control

Achieving water quality goals will necessitate adoption of best management practices (BMP's) by some or all farmers. Water quality is expected to improve as farmers adopt BMP's such as conservation cropping systems, structural measures, and conservation tillage methods. Currently, there is an absence of pollution abatement incentives strong enough to induce farmers to abate sediment, nutrients, and pesticides to desirable social levels. Although a specific socially optimal level of pollutants may be difficult (or impossible) to quantify, the U.S. Congress, by passing the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (P. L. 92-500), has demonstrated the need for improvements in water quality.

scholarly journals Florida Nurseries: Why Some Struggle and Some Sail Through Economic Hard Times

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 844-846
Author(s):  
Teresa Olczyk ◽  
Juanita Popenoe ◽  
Ed Skvarch ◽  
Alejandro Bolques
Keyword(s):  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Extension Agents ◽  
Best Management ◽  
Landscape Plant ◽  
Hard Times

The Florida nursery industry generated $3 billion in farm gate sales in 2005, positioning Florida as the nation's second largest nursery crop production state after California. The recent downturn in the economy and collapse of the housing market has had a negative impact on some sectors of the industry, forcing many of the nurseries producing landscape plant material out of business, but leaving some nurseries untouched. An informal survey by extension agents indicated that nurseries are coping by using various strategies, including reductions in labor force, increased efficiencies in irrigation and fertilizer, the adoption of best management practices, creative marketing strategies, specialization in the production of unique crops, and innovative production and business techniques.

scholarly journals CROP PRODUCTION COSTS, PROFITS, AND ECOSYSTEM STEWARDSHIP WITH PRECISION AGRICULTURE

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID SCHIMMELPFENNIG
Keyword(s):  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Best Management ◽  
Empirical Estimates ◽  
Comprehensive Framework

AbstractEcosystem stewardship is an important goal of crop production management. The developing question has been the feasibility and profitability of best management practices (BMPs) associated with stewardship goals. Treatment-effects empirical estimates show that soybean crop ecosystem stewardship is likely to benefit from precision agriculture's (PA) information technologies to varying degrees. After accounting for the effect of overhead expenditures on technology adoption, and input costs on operating costs and profits, we show PA technologies also affect at least six BMPs. In one comprehensive framework, PA technologies affect profits, and improve crop production management through BMPs, with benefits for ecosystem stewardship.

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