Project Number: 1265-21660-002-01
Project Type: Specific C/A

Start Date: Sep 01, 1999
End Date: Aug 31, 2004

Objective:
To determine the relationships across space and time of soil quality parameters, weed populations and crop productivity in organic production systems. This information will support a research program designed to improve organic crop production and to understand the processes defining organic agrecosystems.

Approach:
Research will be conducted on organic farms and on long-term cropping systems experiments at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. Data defining various measures of soil quality, weed populations and crop productivity will be collected on a geographically referenced spatial grid at regular intervals in time. A geographic information data-base will be established and analyzed for spatial correlations and changing relationships over time. Hypotheses will be developed to define important processes that influence the dynamics of organic systems.

Project Team

Teasdale, John Shunlin Liang - Assistant Professor (301)504-5504

Project Annual Reports

FY 2003   FY 2002   FY 2001   FY 2000

Related National Programs

Crop Protection & Quarantine (304)