200K Awarded to Develop Network of Long-term Agriculture Project Sites in the PNW
(excerpted from CAHNRS News, 10/2/09)
Bill Pan, Hans Kok and Dave Huggins, scientists in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at WSU are part of a $200,000 project that will develop a full plan and proposal to the National Institute for Agriculture for a Long Term Agricultural Project (LTAP) focusing on the sustainability of non-irrigated cereal production systems in the Inland Pacific Northwest (IPNW).
The region’s unique climatic conditions and potential long term productivity merit a concentrated effort to ensure sustainability of its soil resource. Scientists and Extension educators from the University of Idaho, Washington State University and Oregon State University, in partnership with Agricultural Research Service scientists, and the region’s agricultural industry, are committed to developing a coordinated effort to enlist expertise in all agricultural related disciplines and the extensive infrastructure of our institutions, and to ensure science with the broadest relevance to regional agricultural sustainability is conducted and communicated effectively.
During the planning project they will refine the scientific framework for the long-term project, especially focusing on empirically based GIS-based maps of the agroecological zones in the region. They will develop an innovative extension education plan that includes approaches for integrating the SAS-LTAP activities into K-12, undergraduate and graduate education. They will enhance integration of our physical research infrastructure, including networks of grower cooperators and our cyber-infrastructure to allow unprecedented integration and of our legacy data and anticipated future data concerning sustainability of the agricultural soil resource of the region.
The project will culminate in a proposal to establish a multimillion-dollar, decade-long LTAP in the IPNW that will become part of a network of similar centers to be established throughout the USA by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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