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Title: DYNAMIC CROPPING SYSTEMS: PRINCIPLES, PROCESSES, AND CHALLENGES

Author
item Hanson, Jonathan
item Krupinsky, Joseph

Submitted to: Proceedings from Dynamic Cropping Systems: Prinicples, Processes, and Challenges
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/27/2003
Publication Date: 8/4/2003
Citation: Hanson, J.D. and J.M. Krupinsky (eds.) Proceedings of Dynamic Cropping Systems: Principles, Processes, and challenges, Bismarck, ND 2003. 295p.

Interpretive Summary: USDA-ARS sponsored the Dynamic Cropping Systems: Principles, Processes, and Challenges Symposium. The Symposium promoted new and emerging concepts, theories, and methods of dynamic cropping systems. A dynamic cropping system is a long-term strategy of annual crop sequencing that optimizes crop and soil use and the attainment of production, economic, and resource conservation goals by using sound ecological management principles. Dynamic cropping systems research is necessary to provide information suitable for making decisions to producers so that farming enterprises remain sustainable in our ever-changing agricultural and economic environment. The Symposium was organized around the key factors of dynamic cropping systems: diversity, adaptability, reduced input costs, multiple enterprise systems, and environmental and informational awareness. The exchange of information between researchers is an important aspect of dynamic cropping systems research. The Symposium provided a forum for the interaction and exchange of ideas among U.S. and Canadian researchers.

Technical Abstract: USDA-ARS sponsored the Dynamic Cropping Systems: Principles, Processes, and Challenges Symposium. The Symposium promoted new and emerging concepts, theories, and methods of dynamic cropping systems. A dynamic cropping system is a long-term strategy of annual crop sequencing that optimizes crop and soil use and the attainment of production, economic, and resource conservation goals by using sound ecological management principles. Dynamic cropping systems research is necessary to provide information suitable for making decisions to producers so that farming enterprises remain sustainable in our ever-changing agricultural and economic environment. The Symposium was organized around the key factors of dynamic cropping systems: diversity, adaptability, reduced input costs, multiple enterprise systems, and environmental and informational awareness. The exchange of information between researchers is an important aspect of dynamic cropping systems research. The Symposium provided a forum for the interaction and exchange of ideas among U.S. and Canadian researchers.