Demonstrating Agricultural Best Management Practice Implementation and Impacts on a Commercial Farm

Magette, W. L.; Weismiller, R. A.; Lessley, Billy V.; Wood, JD; Miller, Christian F.

doi:10.13031/2013.26343

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“…Inclusiveness in geographical, social, and economic terms was the second category of questions. This category partly relates to the best practices [39]. The own demonstration process formed the third block of questions.…”

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New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

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The research was aimed at an overview and analysis of the demonstration activities in the Czech Republic dealing with the transfer of innovations for agricultural practice. Several methods were used to compile the national inventory, in particular the questionnaire survey method. The Czech part of the research was based on 30 questionnaires conducted among both farmers and agricultural organizations engaged in demonstration activities. The questions were focused on a specialization in agriculture, type of the management, connections with networks and their size, types of demonstration activities according to the types of farms and non-productive activities. The most common topics and purposes for demonstration in the Czech Republic are recorded for the category arable land with combined crops. Highly linked to sustainability are activities such as conservation agriculture on arable land with combined crops, root crops and fodders mainly due to a reduction of soil erosion within crop production and animal health management and welfare for dairy within livestock production. The Ministry of Agriculture has prepared a subsidy program to help farmers in the form of illustrative practical demonstrations of comprehensive sustainable farming practices. The main added values for the end-users, if the generated knowledge is implemented, are to strengthen the knowledge transfer system in agriculture, focusing on practical demonstrations and presentation of sustainable farming systems and soil protection in practice. However, the demonstration activities support mostly technological development and some individual ecological measures whereas the sustainability of agriculture as the complex process unifying the crop and animal production is not in the foreground.

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New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

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“…Agricultural and urban land-use management constitute the focus of efforts to reduce nonpoint source nutrient inputs to water bodies throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Research indicates that relatively simple, low-cost methods of farm nutrient management could have a significant impact on surface and ground water quality in the United States (Correll 1983, Crum et al 1990, Lynch and Corbett 1990, Magette et al 1990; L. Shabman, unpublished manuscript), but the effects at the landscape scale of changing farming practices are not known.…”

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Integrated Ecological Economic Modeling of the Patuxent River Watershed, Maryland

Costanza

Voinov

Boumans

et al. 2002

Ecological Monographs

125

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Understanding the way regional landscapes operate, evolve, and change is a key area of research for ecosystem science. It is also essential to support the “place‐based” management approach being advocated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other management agencies. We developed a spatially explicit, process‐based model of the 2352 km2 Patuxent River watershed in Maryland to integrate data and knowledge over several spatial, temporal, and complexity scales, and to serve as an aid to regional management. In particular, the model addresses the effects of both the magnitude and spatial patterns of human settlements and agricultural practices on hydrology, plant productivity, and nutrient cycling in the landscape. The spatial resolution is variable, with a maximum of 200 × 200 m to allow adequate depiction of the pattern of ecosystems and human settlement on the landscape. The temporal resolution is different for various components of the model, ranging from hourly time steps in the hydrologic sector to yearly time steps in the economic land‐use transition module. We used a modular, multiscale approach to calibrate and test the model. Model results show good agreement with data for several components of the model at several scales. A range of scenarios with the calibrated model shows the implications of past and alternative future land‐use patterns and policies. We analyzed 18 scenarios including: (1) historical land‐use in 1650, 1850, 1950, 1972, 1990, and 1997; (2) a “buildout” scenario based on fully developing all the land currently zoned for development; (3) four future development patterns based on an empirical economic land‐use conversion model; (4) agricultural “best management practices” that lower fertilizer application; (5) four “replacement” scenarios of land‐use change to analyze the relative contributions of agriculture and urban land uses; and (6) two “clustering” scenarios with significantly more and less clustered residential development than the current pattern. Results indicate the complex nature of the landscape response and the need for spatially explicit modeling.

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The influence of demonstration sites and field days on adoption of conservation practices

Singh¹,

MacGowan²,

O’Donnell³

et al. 2018

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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Demonstrating Agricultural Best Management Practice Implementation and Impacts on a Commercial Farm

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New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

Integrated Ecological Economic Modeling of the Patuxent River Watershed, Maryland

The influence of demonstration sites and field days on adoption of conservation practices

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