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Title: Crop And Forage Health On Dissected Terraces In Quapaw Tribal Lands: Implications Of Erosion
On Marginal Landscapes
PD: Lee, Brad, D
Institution: University of Kentucky
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By 2050 the population of the world will include an additional 2 billion people and the associated global food demand could rise between 59 and 98%. To feed this growing population, agricultural will need to intensify production on existing farmland and/or expand into marginal land. Climate change is expected to exacerbate food production challenges, including more intensive rainfall events that can increase erosion on marginal land. To evaluate the impacts of soil erosion on crop health, I propose to take a sabbatical co-hosted by Dr. Owens, Research Leader at the USDA ARS Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center in Booneville, AR, and by Mike Daniels, Soil and Water Conservation Professor, at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR. Selected small watersheds (1-6 ha) on dissected and eroded row crop and forage covered terraces of the Quapaw Tribal Lands will be characterized for erosion by soil mapping techniques and LiDAR. During the growing season on these watersheds, remote sensing techniques utilizing satellite and small unmanned aerial systems will be employed to develop vegetative indices to determine crop health on the dissected watersheds. For comparison, the same vegetative indices will be applied to the same cropping systems on low-erosion watersheds associated with the Arkansas Discovery Farms network which includes edge-of-field monitoring systems with known sediment losses over several years. Results and techniques developed during this sabbatical will be immediately applicable to ongoing edge-of-field water quality monitoring research projects that quantify sediment loss from row cropped fields in western Kentucky.
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Institution: University of Kentucky
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Status | Active |
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Effective start/end date | 9/15/24 → 9/14/25 |
Funding
- National Institute of Food and Agriculture: $170,420.00
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