Minnesota Water Resources Conference Special Session
Tuesday, October 18, Track D (Meeting Rooms 7-8-9)
New cropping systems are needed to meaningfully reduce nutrient and sediment loadings in agricultural landscapes. Minnesota has been a leader in developing cropping systems with continuous living cover, including perennial crops such as intermediate wheatgrass and winter oilseeds that can be incorporated into existing annual crop rotations. This session takes a deep dive into the latest research on these systems, drawing primarily from a large multi-year interdisciplinary research project that is now in its final stages. Researchers from the social, biophysical, and data sciences have been examining various dimensions of cropping systems in which annual summer crops are combined with winter cover crops or camelina as a winter cash crop. The sessions will combine presentations of the study’s findings with discussion about the future prospects for these systems and the remaining agronomic challenges to be resolved.
Organizer: Jeffrey Peterson, University of Minnesota
Moderators: Margaret Wagner, Minnesota Department of Agriculture; Jeffrey Peterson, University of Minnesota; Will Bartsch, Natural Resources Research Institute - University of Minnesota Duluth
1:15-1:35: Nitrogen and water use of winter camelina double cropped with maize and soybean
Axel Garcia y Garcia, University of Minnesota
1:35-1:55: Impacts of alfalfa, kernza and winter camelina on nitrate-N pollution of surface water
Grace Wilson, University of Minnesota
1:55-2:15: Integrated modeling of winter crops at the watershed scale
Lucia Levers, USDA-ARS and University of Minnesota
2:15-2:35: Farmer perceptions and barriers to adoption
Amit Pradhananga, University of Minnesota
2:35-2:45: Synthesis
Jeffrey Strock, University of Minnesota
3:15 - 3:35: Incorporating winter Camelina into the corn-soybean landscape and food system: A life cycle perspective
Natalie Hunt, University of Minnesota
3:35 - 3:55: Farm-level economics of winter crops
William Lazarus, University of Minnesota
3:55 - 4;15: Emerging markets for winter oilseeds
Colin Cureton, University of Minnesota
4:15 - 4:45 Synthesis and moderated panel
Jeffrey Berg, Minnesota Department of Agriculture; Colin Cureton, University of Minnesota; Lucia Levers, USDA-ARS and Univ. of Minnesota; Anne Schwagerl, Prairie Point Farm
Frontiers in Sustainable Foods Systems article on integrating cameilina into organic pig production
Materials presented in the Camelina Rundown Session