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Identification and Delineation of Broad-Base Agricultural Terraces in Flat Landscapes in Northeastern Oklahoma, USA

Land, 2023
Broad-base agricultural terraces can be difficult to delineate in flat landscapes, particularly when covered by crops, due to subtle changes in elevation over relatively wide distances.
Hans Edwin Winzeler, Phillip R. Owens, Tulsi Kharel, Amanda Ashworth, Zamir Libohova   +4 more
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Topographic Wetness Index as a Proxy for Soil Moisture in a Hillslope Catena: Flow Algorithms and Map Generalization

Land, 2022
Topographic wetness index (TWI) is used as a proxy for soil moisture, but how well it performs across varying timescales and methods of calculation is not well understood.
Hans Edwin Winzeler, Phillip R. Owens, Quentin D. Read, Zamir Libohova, Amanda Ashworth, Tom Sauer   +5 more
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Effects of Packing Density and Inoculation with Lactic Acid-Producing Bacteria to Evaluate the Potential for North American Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis L.) Fodder as Silage

Agronomy, 2022
Commercial elderberry production requires complete pruning in late fall to maintain productive canes. For integrated farms (livestock and crops), this biomass has potential as ensiled fodder for ruminant livestock.
Christine C. Nieman, Ashley C. Conway-Anderson   +1 more
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Changes of Soil Organic Carbon after Wildfire in a Boreal Forest, Northeast CHINA

Agronomy, 2021
Boreal forests with high carbon sequestration capacity play a crucial role in mitigating global climate change. Addressing dynamic changes of soil organic carbon (SOC) after wildfire helps in understanding carbon cycling.
Chun-Lan Han, Zhong-Xiu Sun, Shuai Shao, Qiu-Bing Wang, Zamir Libohova, Phillip Ray Owens   +5 more
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Small‐scale silvopasture: Addressing urban and peri‐urban livestock challenges in the United States with agroforestry practices

Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems, 2022
The growing urban and peri‐urban populations around the world creates strain on food and environmental security. Alleviation of these stressors may be possible by enhancing regional food production and ecosystem services provided by urban and peri‐urban ...
Ashley Conway, Christine Nieman
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Characteristics of a Benchmark Loess–Paleosol Profile in Northeast China

Agronomy, 2022
The Chaoyang profile represents a rare multi-period, continuous and complete sequence of aeolian paleo-deposits with a stable sedimentary origin and multi-stage paleoclimatic cycles.
Zhong-Xiu Sun, Ying-Ying Jiang, Qiu-Bing Wang, Zhuo-Dong Jiang, Zamir Libohova, Phillip R. Owens   +5 more
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Identifying key factors controlling potential soil respiration in agricultural fields

Agricultural & Environmental Letters, 2023
Soil respiration is one of the main soil health indicators and is influenced by several factors in agricultural fields. Identifying key factors that control soil respiration is desirable for informed soil management decisions and for promoting and ...
Kabindra Adhikari, Kelsey R. Anderson, Douglas R. Smith, Phillip R. Owens, Philip A. Moore Jr., Zamir Libohova   +5 more
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Linking and Sharing Technology: Partnerships for Data Innovations for Management of Agricultural Big Data

Data, 2022
Combining data into a centralized, searchable, and linked platform will provide a data exploration platform to agricultural stakeholders and researchers for better agricultural decision making, thus fully utilizing existing data and preventing redundant ...
Tulsi P. Kharel, Amanda J. Ashworth, Phillip R. Owens   +2 more
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Evaluating optimum seeding distances from subsurface banding poultry litter in crop rotations

Agricultural & Environmental Letters, 2022
Poultry litter is a nutrient‐dense fertilizer, but surface applications lead to nutrient losses to air, soil, and water. Objectives were to evaluate optimum subsurface‐applied poultry litter bands from crop seeding distance in a corn (Zea Mays L ...
A. J. Ashworth, C. C. Nieman
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Evaluating how operator experience level affects efficiency gains for precision agricultural tools

Agricultural & Environmental Letters, 2022
Tractor guidance (TG) improve environmental gains relative to nonprecision technologies; however, studies evaluating how tractor operator experience for nonguidance comparisons affect gains are nonexistent.
Tulsi P. Kharel, Amanda J. Ashworth, Phillip R. Owens   +2 more
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