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ASA-CSSA-SSSA-COSA Annual Roundtable event

Date: Monday, November 5, 2007
Time: 6 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Marriott Hotel Blaine Kern CD 1st Floor
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Building Sustainable Ecosystems through Organic Agricultural Research and Practice

The Integrated Agricultural Systems Division (A-8) would like to announce a symposium to be held during the 2007 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meetings in New Orleans, LA, November 4-8, 2007, that will address the role that organic farming practices and research can have on shaping sustainable agriculture. Themes to be discussed will include the history of organic agriculture; transitioning to organic status; long-term organic experiments; agroecosystem management; public plant breeding for organic systems; economics and policy influencing organic research; building farmer participation into organic research; and hearing from organic farmers who have worked with Division A-8 researchers and successfully converted their farms to organic. The symposium will address the challenges of organic research and methods to increase support at University, state and national levels. The Committee on Organic and Sustainable Agriculture is co-sponsoring this symposium. Symposium organizers are Kathleen Delate (kdelate@iastate.edu) and Erin Silva (emsilva@wis.edu). Look for more information on this symposium in the April issue of CSA News, or by contacting the symposium organizers or Division A-8 chair Pat Carr (Patrick.Carr@ndsu.edu; 701-483-2348 ext 143).

Confirmed Speakers:

  1. Mark Lipson and Jane Sooby (Organic Farming Research Foundation), "Organic Transitions: The Evolution of Organic Research, Theory, and Practice."
  2. Kathleen Delate (Iowa State University), Cynthia Cambardella, and Ron Rosmann: "Environmental and Economic Outcomes of Long Term Participatory Organic Research in Iowa."
  3. Jeff Moyer (The Rodale Institute): "Cover Crop Management with Specialty Equipment for No-Till."
  4. Paul Porter (University of Minnesota): "Designing Crop Rotations and Spatial Diversity."
  5. Linda Pollak (Iowa State University) and Patrick Carr (North Dakota State University): "Developing and Choosing Annual Grain Crops for Organic Farming."
  6. Julie Dawson (Washington State University), Kevin Murphy, and Stephen Jones: "Plant Breeding for Organic Systems: Wheat in the Inland Pacific Northwest."
  7. Cathy Greene (USDA-ERS), Bill McBride, Tim Payne, and Stan Daberkow: "Organic Farming Practices, Costs, and Profitability: New USDA Survey Data."
  8. Laurie Drinkwater (Cornell University): "Sustainable nutrient management in organic agriculture."
  9. Michelle Wander (University of Illinois), D. Cavanaugh, L. Cooperband, A. Davis, D. Eastburn, J. Masiunas, C. Ugarte, and E. Zaborski: "Windsor Organic Research in Transition: A System of Soil Management."
  10. Karen Klonsky (UC Davis): " The Size, Growth, and Profitability of Organic Agriculture in California."
  11. Dawn Thilmany (Colorado State University and USDA-CSREES): "Organic Agriculture in the USDA: Increasing Partnerships within USDA and among land grant and other CSREES Partners."
  12. Michael Cavigelli (USDA-ARS), and John Teasdale: "Long Term Agronomic Performance of Organic Conventional Field Crops in the Mid-Atlantic Region."
  13. Tim Griffin (USDA-ARS), Richard Kersbergen, Heather Darby, Sidney Bowsworth, and Charles Schwab: "Building a Research Base for Organic Dairy in New England."
  14. Robert Gallagher (Penn State University), Dennis Pittman, Amanda Synder, Rich Koenig, Kathleen Painter, Herbert Hinman, E. Patrick Fuerst, and Ian Burke: "Transitioning to Direct-Seeded Organic Dryland Grain Production in Eastern Washington."
  15. Andrew Corbin (Michigan State University), Kurt D. Thelen, Richard H. Leep, G.P. Robertson, and Stephen K. Hamilton: "Transitional Dynamics in Converting Conventional Cropping Systems to Certified Organic: A Study on Michigan Field Crops"
  16. Chris Reberg Horton (North Carolina State University), J.P. Mueller, and N.G. Creamer: "Combining Short-Term and Long-Term Research on Organic Farming Systems at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems"