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[03/16/2016] [10/11/2016] [02/06/2018] [09/20/2018] [10/10/2019]

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<p>Results from these projects have been used with frequency in extension presentations in several member states. The work conducted by the members of this regional project has helped bring attention to the importance of soil health on crop productivity and the role of soil organic carbon. For example, multiple locations have been able to collected long-term data to determine the impact of corn stover harvest and tillage practices on soil properties (i.e. intensification in agricultural practices). Results generally show a decrease in soil health parameters with increasing corn stover harvest and with an increase in tillage intensity in the long-term, but this is not the case at every study site and years. Short-term, however, there is a lower tendency to detect changes in soil properties. Further, environmental impacts of these practices have also been quantified by several regional project members. Differences crop productivity vary between sites, years and studied management systems, which seems to indicate weather variability plays a significant role in productivity and also in the magnitude soil properties are affected by certain practices. Moreover, intensification of management practices sometimes resulted in greater yields. The complexity of these systems highlights the need for more research.</p>

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1. A total of 12 peer-reviewed journal publications, 2 book chapter, 5 presentations at professional conferences, 26 presentations at workshops/field days, and 4 popular press articles from data collected from projects associated with this regional project. In addition, 2 M.S. and 2 Ph.D. students working on these projects completed their degrees during this reporting period. Other graduate students are actively working and training on these projects. We estimate the total audience of oral presentations, including scientific and extension/outreach, that has benefited from data generated from projects associated with NC-1178 this reporting period to be approximately 4,000+ scientists, farmers, agricultural professionals and county/state/federal agency personnel. Although difficult to quantify, we feel these efforts have created changes in farmer behavior, as well as changing recommendations made to farmers by practicing professions (e.g. crop consultants and agency personnel).

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Mahdi Al-Kaisi (IA)
Francisco Arriaga (WI)
Larry Cihacek (ND)
Mohammad Golabi (Guam)
Jose Guzman, SD
David Lobb (U. Manitoba)
Klaus Lorenz (OH)
Deann Presley (KS)
Tom Schumacher (SD) (retired)
Sandeep Kumar (SD)

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<p>The research reported by NC-1178 participants addresses various aspects agricultural intensification including crop residue removal by baling or grazing, monoculture vs. polyculture cropping systems, inclusion of cover crops in cropping systems, nutrient cycling in long-term no-till systems, and interactions between tillage and no tillage in long-term studies.&nbsp; Incorporated in these studies were observations of soil health under differing crop management systems as well as alternate use of cover crops in some of the systems.&nbsp; Several studies are addressing issues that may appear to be localized but have broad implications across wide areas of the North Central Region, especially, those areas which have similarities in climate.&nbsp; Several states have long-term studies (&gt;5 years) (Iowa, Ohio, Guam, South Dakota, North Dakota) that enable researchers to develop insight into how certain practices will have long-term impacts (e.g., crop yields, SOC changes, microbial changes, economic trends).&nbsp; This project has been able to illustrate short (&lt;3 years) and longer (&gt; 5 years) term effects of specific types of soil and crop management.&nbsp; These studies also illustrate the interactions of a varying climate and soil health with established cropping systems and the complexities facing agriculture in the North Central Region of the U. S.</p>

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<p>Alghamdi, A., M.B. Kirkham, D.R. Presley, Ganga Hettiarachchi, and L. Murray. 2017.&nbsp; Rehabilitation of an Abandoned Mine Site with Biosolids. In: Spoil to Soil: Mine Site Rehabilitation and Revegetation. Eds. N.S. Bolan, M.B. Kirkham, and Y.S. Ok. CRC Press. Portland, United States.</p><br /> <p>Alhameid A., M. Ibrahim, S. Kumar, P. Sexton, and T. Schumacher. 2017. Soil Organic Carbon Changes Impacted by Crop Rotational Diversity under No-Till Farming in South Dakota, USA. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 81:868-877.</p><br /> <p>Blanco-Canqui, H., and C.W. Wortmann. 2017. Crop residue removal and soil erosion by wind. J. Soil and Water Cons. 72:97A-104A.</p><br /> <p>Cox-O'Neill, J.L., K.M. Ulmer, M. Rakkar, L. Franzen-Castle, H. Blanco-Canqui, M.E. Drewnoski, J.C. MacDonald, and R.J. Rasby. 2017. Perceptions of crop consultants and crop producers on grazing corn residue in Nebraska. J. Ext. 55:1-11.</p><br /> <p>Daigh, A.L.M., W.A. Dick, M.J. Helmers, R. Lal, J.G. Lauer, E. Nafziger, C.H. Pederson, J. Strock, M. Villamil, A. Mukherjee, and R. Cruse. 2018. Yields and yield stability of no-till and chisel-plow fields in the Midwestern US Corn Belt. Field Crops Res. 218:243-253.</p><br /> <p>Farney, J., G. F. Sassenrath, C. Davis, and D. Presley. 2018. Production, Forage Quality and Economics of Three-Way Cover Crop Mixes. Crops Forage Turfgrass Manage. doi: 10.2134/cftm2017.11.0081;</p><br /> <p>Feng, Q., J. Xu, Y. Zhang, X. Li, J. Xu, H. Han, T. Ning, R. Lal, and Z. Li. 2017. CO₂ fixation in above-ground biomass of summer maize under different tillage and straw management treatments. Scientific Rep. 7:16888.</p><br /> <p>He, Y., D.R. Presley, J. Tatarko, and H. Blanco-Canqui. 2017. Crop residue harvest impacts wind erodibility and simulated soil loss in the Central Great Plains. Global Change Biol. Bioenergy. doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12483</p><br /> <p>Jha, P., S. Verma, R. Lal, C. Eidson and G.S. Dheri. 2017. Natural C-13 abundance and soil carbon dynamics under long-term residue retention in a no-till maize system. Soil Use and Manage. 33(1):90-97.</p><br /> <p>Kaur, J., L. J. Cihacek, and A. Chatterjee. 2018.&nbsp; Estimation of nitrogen and sulfur mineralization in soils amended with crop residues contributing to nitrogen and sulfur nutrition of crops in the North Central U. S.&nbsp; Comm. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 49(18):2256-2266.</p><br /> <p>Nath, A.J. and R. Lal. 2017. Effects of tillage practices and land use management on soil aggregates and soil organic carbon in the north Appalachian region, USA. Pedosphere 27(1): 172-76.</p><br /> <p>Nawaz, A., R. Lal, R.K. Shrestha and M. Farooq. 2017. Mulching affects soil properties and greenhouse gas emissions under long-term no-till and plough-till systems in Alfisol of central Ohio. Land Degrad. Develop. 28(2): 673-81.</p><br /> <p>Presley, D., Y. He, and P. Tomlinson. 2018. Soil Health and Yields on Non-Sodic Soils Amended With Flue Gas Desulfurization Gypsum. Crops Forage Turfgrass Manage.&nbsp; doi: 10.2134/cftm2018.01.0001</p><br /> <p>Rakkar, M.K. and H. Blanco-Canqui. 2018. Grazing of crop residues: Impacts on soils and crop production. Agric., Ecosys. and Environ. 254:71-90.</p><br /> <p>Rakkar, M.K., H. Blanco-Canqui, R. Rasby, K. Ulmer, J. Cox, M.E. Drewnoski, R. Drijber,&nbsp; K. Jenkins,&nbsp; and J. MacDonald. 2018. Grazing crop residues has less short-term impact on soil properties than baling in the central Great Plains. Agron. J. doi: 10.2134/agronj2018.03.0224.</p><br /> <p>Ruis, S., H. Blanco-Canqui, C. Burr, B. Olson, M. Reiman, D. Rudnick, R. Drijber, and T. Shaver. 2018. Corn residue baling and grazing impacts on soil carbon stocks and other properties on a Haplustoll. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 82:202&ndash;213.</p>

Impact Statements

1. A total of 15 peer-reviewed journal articles, 1 book chapter, 1 thesis, and 42 presentations at professional conferences and workshops and field days in 2017 and 2018 were based on data collect from projects associated with this regional project. Currently, five graduate students are working on this project or have recently completed their work. The total audience of oral presentations including scientific and extension/outreach activities that have benefitted from data generated from active projects associated with NC-1178 during this reporting period is estimated to be 5,000+ scientists, farmers, agricultural professionals and local/county/state/federal agency personnel. Although it is often difficult to quantify these efforts, with the growing consciousness of the importance of soil health, farmers are making changes in their soil management practices that enhance soil organic carbon assimilation and dynamics and improve long-term crop productivity where these management practices are established. This information also has influenced the recommendations of agricultural crop consultants and agency personnel.

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Participants

Mahdi Al-Kaisi (IA)
Larry Cihacek (ND)
Mohammad Golabi (Guam)
Rattan Lal (OH)
DeAnn Presley (KS)
Humberto Blanco (NE)
Sandeep Kumar (SD)
Lisa Tiemann (MI)
Francisco Arriaga (WI)
Gary Pierzynski (Advisor)

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The minutes are provided in an attached document.

Accomplishments

<p>The research reported by NC-1178 participants addresses various aspects agricultural intensification including crop residue removal by baling or grazing, monoculture vs. polyculture cropping systems, inclusion of cover crops in cropping systems, nutrient cycling in long-term no-till systems, and interactions between tillage and no tillage in long-term studies.&nbsp; Incorporated in these studies were observations of soil health under differing crop management systems as well as alternate use of cover crops in some of the systems.&nbsp; Several studies are addressing issues that may appear to be localized but have broad implications across wide areas of the North Central Region, especially, those areas which have similarities in climate.&nbsp; Several states have long-term studies (&gt;5 years) (Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Guam, South Dakota, North Dakota) that enable researchers to develop insight into how certain practices will have long-term impacts (e.g., crop yields, SOC changes, microbial changes, economic trends).&nbsp; This project has been able to illustrate short (&lt;3 years) and longer (&gt; 5 years) term effects of specific types of soil and crop management.&nbsp; These studies also illustrate the interactions of a varying climate and soil health with established cropping systems and the complexities facing agriculture in the North Central Region of the U. S.</p>

Publications

<p>Alhameid A., J. Singh, U. Sekaran, S. Kumar, and S. Singh. 2019. &ldquo;Soil Biological Health: Influence of crop rotational diversity and tillage on soil microbial properties&rdquo;. <em>Soil Science Society of America Journal</em> <em>(In press).</em></p><br /> <p>Acharya, B.S., H. Blanco-Canqui, R.B. Mitchell, R.M. Cruse, and D.A. Laird. 2018. Dedicated bioenergy crops and water erosion. J. Environ. Qual. 48:485-492.</p><br /> <p>Acharya, B.S. and H. Blanco-Canqui. 2018. Lignocellulosic-based bioenergy and water quality parameters: A review. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 10:504-533.</p><br /> <p>Barker J.; D. Heeren; K. Koehler-Cole; C. Shapiro; H. Blanco-Canqui; R. Elmore; C. Proctor; S. Irmak; C. Francis; T. Shaver, and A. Mohammad. 2018. Cover crops negligible on soil water storage in Nebraska maize &ndash; soybean rotation. Agron. J. 110:1718-1730.</p><br /> <p>Blanco-Canqui, H. 2018. Cover crops and water quality. Agron. J. 110:1633-1647.</p><br /> <p>Blanco-Canqui, H. and S.J. Ruis. 2018. No-tillage and soil physical environment. Geoderma 326:164-200.</p><br /> <p>Chaoqun Lu , Zhen Yu, Hanqin Tian, David A Hennessy, Hongli Feng, Al-Kaisi, M.M., Yuyu Zhou, Tom Sauer and Raymond Arritt. 2018. Increasing carbon footprint of grain crop production in the US Western Corn Belt. Environmental Research Letters. 13 124007</p><br /> <p>Chawner, M.M., M.D. Ruark, M. Ballweg, R. Proost, F.J. Arriaga, and J. Stute. 2018. Does cover crop radish supply nitrogen to corn?&nbsp; Agron. J. 110:1513-1522.</p><br /> <p>Farney, J.K., G.F. Sassenrath, C. Davis, and D. Presley. 2018. Composition, forage production, and costs are variable in three-way cover crop mixes as fall forage. Crop, Forage, and Turfgrass Management. &nbsp;doi:10.2134/cftm2018.03.0020</p><br /> <p>Guzman, Jose, and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mohammad H. Golabi</span>. 2017.&nbsp; Agroecosystem Net Primary Productivity and carbon Footing.&nbsp; <em>In the:</em> &lsquo;Soil Health and Intensification of Agroecosystems&rsquo;, edited by; Mahdi Al-Kaisi (Iowa State University), and Birl Lowery (University of Wisconsin-Madison).&nbsp; Academic Press (AP), An imprint of Elsevier. London, San Diego, Cambridge, MA, Oxford, England.</p><br /> <p>Huang, J., A.E. Hartemink, F.J. Arriaga, and N.W. Chaney. 2019. Unraveling location-specific and time-dependent interactions between soil water content and environmental factors in cropped sandy soils using Sentinel-1 and moisture probes. J. of Hydrology 575:780-793.</p><br /> <p>Kaur, J., L. Cihacek, and A. Chatterjee.&nbsp; 2018.&nbsp; Estimation of Nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) mineralization in soils amended with crop residues contributing to N and S nutrition of corn in the north Central U.S. Commun. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 49(18):2256-2266.&nbsp;</p><br /> <p>Kaur, J., A. Chatterjee, D Franzen, and L. J. Cihacek.&nbsp; 2019.&nbsp; Corn Response to Sulfur Fertilizer in the Red River Valley. Agron. J. doi:10.2134/agronj2018.05.0313.</p><br /> <p>Lal, R. 2018. Promoting &ldquo;4 per thousand&rdquo; and &ldquo;adapting African agriculture&rdquo; by south-south cooperation: conservation agriculture and sustainable intensification. Soil &amp; Tillage Research 188:45-40.</p><br /> <p>Maiga, A., A. Alhameid, S. Singh, A. Polat, J. Singh, S. Kumar, and S. Osborne. 2019. &ldquo;Responses of soil organic carbon, aggregate stability, carbon and nitrogen fractions to 15 and 24 years of no-till diversified crop rotations&rdquo;.&nbsp;<em>Soil research, </em>57(2), pp. 149-157.</p><br /> <p>Ozlu, E., S.S. Sandhu, S. Kumar, and F.J. Arriaga. 2019. Soil health indicators impacted by long-term cattle manure and inorganic fertilizer application in a corn-soybean rotation of South Dakota. Scientific Reports 9:11776.</p><br /> <p>Petipas, R. H., McLachlan, E., Bekkerring, C., Bowsher, A., Jack, C., White, R.A., Younginger, B., Tiemann, L. K., Evans, S. and Friesen, M. L. Interactive effects of microbes and nitrogen on <em>Panicum virgatum</em> root functional traits and patterns of phenotypic selection. <em>International Journal of Plant Sciences. In press.</em></p><br /> <p>Ruis, S., H. Blanco-Canqui, C. Creech, K. Koehler-Cole, R. Elmore and C. Francis. 2019. Cover crop biomass production in temperate agroecozones. Agron. J. 111:1-17.</p><br /> <p>Ruis, S., Blanco-Canqui, H., E.T. Paparozzi, and R. Zeeck. 2019. Using processed corn stover as an alternative to peat. HortSci 54:385-394.</p><br /> <p>Ruis, S., H. Blanco-Canqui, P. Jasa, R. Ferguson, and G. Slater. 2018. Early and late terminated cover crop induced changes to soil gas fluxes and related soil properties. J. Environ. Qual. 47: 1426-1435.</p><br /> <p>Shaver, M. T., A.L.Stalker, H. Blanco-Canqui, and S.J. van Donk. 2018. Effects of 5 years of corn residue grazing and baling on nitrogen cycling, soil compaction, and wind erosion potential. J. Plant Nutrition 41: 2425-2437.</p><br /> <p>Smercina, D. N., Evans, S. E., Friesen, M. L., and Tiemann, L. K. 2019. To Fix or Not to Fix: Controls on Free-Living Nitrogen-Fixation in the Rhizosphere. <em>Applied and Environmental Microbiol</em>ogy, <em>85</em> (6), e02546-18.</p><br /> <p>Stock, M.A., F.J. Arriaga, P.A. Vadas, and K.G. Karthikeyan. 2019. Manure application timing drives energy absorption for snowmelt on an agricultural soil. J. of Hydrology 569:51-60.</p><br /> <p>Stock, M.N., F.J. Arriaga, P.A. Vadas, L.W. Good, M.D. Casler, K.G. Karthikeyan, and Z. Zopp. 2019. Fall tillage reduced nutrient loads from liquid manure application during the freezing season. J. Env. Qual. 48(4):889-898.</p><br /> <p>Vadas, P.A., M.N. Stock, F.J. Arriaga, P.A. L.W. Good, K.G. Karthikeyan, and Z. Zopp. 2019. Dynamics of measured and simulated dissolved phosphorus in runoff from winter-applied dairy manure. J. Env. Qual. 48(4):899-906.</p><br /> <p>Vadas, P.A., *M.N. Stock, G.W. Feyereisen, F.J. Arriaga, L.W. Good, and K.G. Karthikeyan.&nbsp; 2018. Temperature and manure placement in a snowpack affect nutrient release from dairy manure during snowmelt.&nbsp; J. Environ. Qual. 47:848-855.</p><br /> <p>Wander, M., Cihacek, L. J., Coyne, M., Drijber, R. A., Grossman, J. M., Gutknecht, J., Horwath, W. R., Jagadamma, S., Olk, D. C., Tiemann, L. K., Ruark, M., Snapp, S. S., Whitman, T., Weill, R. and Turco, R.F. 2019. Developments in Soil Quality and Health: Reflections by the Research Committee on Soil Organic Matter Management. <em>Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7, </em>109.</p><br /> <p>Werle, R., C. Burr, and H. Blanco-Canqui. 2018. Cereal rye cover crop suppresses winter annual weeds. Canadian J. Plant Sci. 98:498-500.</p><br /> <p>Yadav, G.S., R. Lal. and R.S. Meena. 2019. Long‐term effects of vehicular passages on soil carbon sequestration and carbon dioxide emission in a no‐till corn‐soybean rotation on a Crosby silt loam in Central Ohio, USA. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 182(1):126-136.</p><br /> <p>Yadav, G.S., R. Lal, R.S. Meena, and B. Rimal. 2019. Long-Term Effects of Different Passages of Vehicular Traffic on Soil Properties and Carbon Storage of a Crosby Silt Loam in USA. Pedosphere 29(2):150-160.</p>

Impact Statements

1. A total of 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, 1 book chapter, and 82 presentations at professional conferences and workshops and field days in 2018 and 2019 were based on data collected from projects associated with this regional project. The total audience of oral presentations including scientific and extension/outreach activities that have benefitted from data generated from active projects associated with NC-1178 during this reporting period is estimated to be 5,000+ scientists, farmers, agricultural professionals and local/county/state/federal agency personnel. Although it is often difficult to quantify these efforts, with the growing consciousness of the importance of soil health, farmers are making changes in their soil management practices that enhance soil organic carbon assimilation and dynamics and improve long-term crop productivity where these management practices are established. This information also has influenced the recommendations of agricultural crop consultants and agency personnel.

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