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Title: ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR NURSERIES, GREENHOUSES AND LANDSCAPES

Author
item CATANZARO, CHRIS - TENNESSEE ST UNIV
item WHITWELL, TED - CLEMSON UNIV
item Albano, Joseph
item FARE, D - ARS-U.S. NATL ARBORETUM
item OWEN, JIM - OREGON ST UNIV
item WARREN, STUART - NC ST UNIV
item BILDERBACK, TED - NC ST UNIV
item WILSON, P. CHRIS - UF
item YEAGER, TOM - UF
item TAYLOR, MILTON - CLEMSON UNIV
item WHITE, SARAH - CLEMSON UNIV
item POLOMSKI, ROBERT - CLEMSON UNIV
item KLAINE, STEVE - CLEMSON UNIV

Submitted to: Southern Nursery Association Proceedings
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/1/2005
Publication Date: 12/1/2005
Citation: Catanzaro, C.J., Whitwell, T., Albano, J.P., Fare, D.C., Owen, J.S., Warren, S.L., Bilderback, T.E., Wilson, P., Yeager, T., Taylor, M.D., White, S.A., Polomski, R.F., Klaine, S.J. 2005. Environmental resource management systems for nurseries, greenhouses and landscapes. Southern Nursery Association Research Conference. 50:564-566.

Interpretive Summary: Through the USDA-ARS Floriculture and Nursery Research Initiatve FNRI), partnerships between federal, university, and growers have formed to improve crop quality, production and profitability while reducing the impact of such activities on environmental and water resources. The FNRI is divided into three main problem areas: Production, Pest Management, and Environmental Resource Management (ERM). The ERM problem area is represented by collaborative studies at two USDA-ARS units and four universities in the southeast with the overall objective of developing strategies to more efficiently use and protect the environmental resources that nurseries, greenhouses, and landscapers rely on to produce their crops or products. The methods being developed will help make nursery and greenhouse production facilities and landscaped developments more efficient, self-contained, and self-remediating with respect to production surface area, irrigation, nutrients, and pollutants in runoff water. They will have more options when designing management systems to meet stricter water quality standards that may be adopted in the future by federal, state, and local governments. Other methods being developed will increase the efficiency of water and nutrient use for for container-grown crops, and will create new markets for landscape species that purify pesticide and nutrient pollution.

Technical Abstract: Collaborative studies at two USDA-ARS units and four universities in the Southeast have developed strategies to more efficiently use and protect the environmental resources that nurseries, greenhouses, and landscapers rely on to produce their crops or products. The methods being developed will help make nursery and greenhouse production facilities and landscaped developments more efficient, self-contained, and self-remediating with respect to bed space, irrigation, nutrients, and pollutants in runoff water. They will have more options when designing management systems to meet stricter water quality standards that may be adopted in the future by federal, state, and local governments. Other methods being developed will increase the efficiency of water and nutrient use for for container-grown crops, and will create new markets for landscape species that remediate pesticide and nutrient pollution.