Location: Poultry Production and Product Safety Research
Project Number: 6022-63000-006-026-A
Project Type: Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Jul 1, 2022
End Date: Mar 30, 2026
Objective:
To develop tools and disseminate information to tribal producers for optimizing production of culturally important crops for combating climate change and food insecurity on U.S. Tribal reservations. In order to develop soil health maps and identify gaps in soil health and yield, hourly support is needed for soil sampling and data compilation for U.S. Tribal reservations.
Approach:
An interdisciplinary team, including the developer of the digital soil mapping technology (US patent US No. 2016/0003792), remote sensing and other GPS enabled technology specialists, economists, and the director of the Indigenous Food & Agriculture Initiative to advance our understanding of interconnected soil health, crop growth, and nutrient/water cycling, all of which are linked to agricultural water availability across farm landscapes. By spurring water and nutrient smart agriculture, we will advance system innovation towards practices that promote healthy soils and water conservation on Tribal Lands. Overall project goals are to integrate multiple data sources ranging from Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK, or tacit knowledge) for use in digital agriculture platforms that ultimately promote water and nutrient-smart agriculture.
