Increasing the resilience of agricultural landscapes requires fundamental changes to the
dominant commodity production model, including incorporating practices such as reduced …

Farmers stand to be greatly affected by changes in the climate, necessitating adaptive
responses, yet little is documented on how US Midwestern farmers understand and perceive …

Nitrogen availability—the amount of inorganic N in soil at any given time—is the single best
predictor of N2O fluxes in cropped ecosystems7, 8. Michigan State University researchers …

Establishment of native grassland species can be impaired by weed populations, presenting
considerable economic risk for growers of perennial bioenergy crops. We established …

Incorporating native C4 grasses into pastures dominated by C3 grasses can augment tallgrass
prairie restoration efforts while improving pasture production. We examined grazing and …

… Doll is an outreach specialist in agroecology at the WK Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan
State University, Hickory Corners, Michigan. Bruno Basso is an associate professor at the …

Farmers represent a large group of Extension stakeholders who stand to be affected by
increased climate variability and change. Yet climate change can be a polarizing topic. In order …

More tallgrass prairie has been lost than any other ecosystem in North America, and relict
tallgrass prairie remains a threatened plant community. There are potential environmental and …

warming in some places–in the Arctic, for example–is much greater than in others. Local
changes include shifts in the patterns and severity of rainfall and snowfall, droughts, cloudiness, …

Corn (Zea mays L.) and soybean (Glycine max L.) are major US grain crops with 38.6
million and 31.0 million ha (95.4 and 76.5 million acres) planted in 2013, respectively (NASS …