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Agroforestry
Working Trees: How Can Agroforestry Help Landowners Adapt to Climate Change?
Agroforestry can help landowners prepare for and respond to the risks that come from a changing climate.
Working Trees: How Can Agroforestry Help Land Owners Adapt to Increased Rain Intensity?
Rain events have become heavier and more frequent. A new factsheet produced by the National Agroforestry Center addresses how agroforestry systems can help landowners adapt to this change and lessen negative impacts.
Cover Crops
Cover Cropping to Improve Climate Resilience
Organized by the USDA Northeast Climate Hub, the creation of this factsheet was a collaborative effort from cover crop experts across the Northeast. Use this attractive 1-pager to learn and share the general benefits, considerations, methods, and go-to resources for making sure your field is 'covered' from the impacts of a changing climate.
Cover Crops for Sustainable Crop Rotations
This resource is a companion to SARE's Cover Crop Topic Room, which has a wealth of information you can use whether you are just starting with cover crops, or have some experience growing them. Here we summarize some of it and provide an introduction to many of the benefits of growing cover crops. Visit the web page listed in the Topic Brief with each section for in-depth resources on cover crops.
Tips for Interseeding Cover Crops
"Interseeding cover crops has many benefits to the farmer. Like any new way of implementing an agronomic practice, there are certain considerations that should be addressed." This factsheet by University of Vermont Extension is a brief overview of those considerations.
Dairy
Weather and Climate Considerations: Dairy
Energy
Farm Energy, Carbon and Greenhouse Gases
A factsheet created by Cornell Cooperative Extension. "Farmers today face rising energy costs and uncertainty about future energy policies that affect agriculture. Many farmers are responding by improving the energy efficiency of their operations and exploring alternatives to traditional fossil fuels such as wind, solar, and biofuel crops. Improving nitrogen fertilizer use efficiency is another important strategy. Fertilizer cost is important because it is tightly linked to energy prices, and excessive applications increase the release of nitrous oxide (N2O), a very potent greenhouse gas (GHG). More efficient fertilizer management is just one of many win-win strategies for farmers that make economic sense and also address concerns about GHG emissions and climate change."
Grazing Management
Managing Grazing to Improve Climate Resilience
Organized by the USDA Northeast Climate Hub, the creation of this factsheet was a collaborative effort from grazing experts across the Northeast. Use this attractive 1-pager to learn and share the general benefits, risks, methods, and go-to resources for making sure your managing your livestock in consideration to a changing climate.
Pasture Management
West Virginia University: Pasture and Hay
West Virginia’s mountainous terrain is often better suited for grassland and pasture. This website contains a robust series of factsheets covering topics from forage qualty and animal health to risk management and budgets.
NRCS Profitable Grazing-Based Dairy Systems
Well-managed grazing-based dairies help protect soil, water, air, plant, and animal resources by maintaining permanent vegetative cover on the soil, increasing soil organic matter, improving the distribution of nutrients on fields, and reducing the potential for odors, spills, or runoff from concentrated animal housing, feed lots, and waste storage areas. Compared with traditional confinement dairies, grazing-based dairies have more wildlife, more diverse plant communities, and healthier cows with longer productive lives. In addition, grazing-based dairies often boost income by reducing feed, labor, equipment, and fuel costs.
NRCS Forage Suitability Group Descriptions
Forage suitability group descriptions (FSGDs) are interpretive reports which provide a soil and plant science basis for conservation planning on livestock operations where forage crops are grown. FSGDs identify adapted forage species, yearly forage production estimates, and distribution of production during the growing season. Additionally, FSGDs provide information on climate patterns, soil properties, and management interpretations.
Riparian Bufefrs
Working Trees: Why Add Edible and Floral Plants to Riparian Forest Buffers?
Multifunctional riparian forest buffers offer the opportunity to produce perennial crops of native fruits and nuts, as well as floral trees and shrubs.
Conservation Buffers Work Economically and Environmentally
A simple way to protect your most valuable asset: your land.
Soil + Nutrients
Healthy Soils and Climate Change
A great overview on the importance of soil health by Rutgers University. "Following best management practices for soil health is important for sequestering carbon, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, storing water, and helping make land more resilient to climate change."
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