Agricultural Sustainability

Mountain with snow cover. Photo: Unsplash

We are Collaborating on several projects on agricuLtural sustainability in Dairy, Kernza, Potatoes and AgriVoltaics.

Principal investigators

Ankur R Desai

Staff

Susi Wiesner
Jonathan Thom
Ammara Talib

Overview

Carbon, water, and Heat Exchanges between managed Croplands and the Atmosphere Can be Monitored to better understand The impact of Food and Energy Production on Climate and Measures to mitigate Those

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The objectives of this study are to expand past statistical analyses to a greater range of snow and cyclone observations, focus on central/eastern North America, and understand future changes to the mid-latitude storm trajectories with retreating snow extent.

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Funding from:

USDA Dairy Forage Research Center

WI Dairy Innovation

UW Ressarch Forward

featured Publications

Wiesner, S., Duff, A., Desai, A.R., and Panke-Buisse, K., 2020. Increasing Dairy Sustainability with Integrated Crop-Livestock Farming. Sustainability, 12(3), 765, https://doi.org/10.3390/su12030765

Wiesner, S., Desai, A.R., Duff, A.J., Metzger, S., Stoy, P., 2022. Quantifying the natural climate solution potential of agricultural systems by combining eddy covariance and remote sensing, J. Geophys Res-Biogeosciences, 127, e2022JG006895, doi:10.1029/2022JG006895

Wiesner, S., Duff, A.J., Niemann, K., Desai, A.R., Crews, T.E., Picasso Risso, V., Riday, H., Stoy, P.C., 2022. Growing season carbon dynamics differ in intermediate wheatgrass monoculture versus biculture with red clover, Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, 323, 109062, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109062.