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RESEARCH SHOWS PROTEIN ON NATIVE GRASSLANDS IN DECLINE
2017-08-23 23:19:29| Cattle Today
There is an alarming trend on America's rangelands due to grazing and changing climate, and it's already costing producers almost $2 billion annually, according to recently published work by a Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist in Temple.
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Considering CRP Grasslands Enrollment? Theres Still Time.
2016-11-30 22:52:07| National Farmers Union
Farmers and ranchers rely on natural resources to grow food and raise livestock, which makes programs that voluntarily incentivize conservation practices like the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) even more pertinent to rural America. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) certainly recognizes the benefits of voluntary, incentive-based conservation practices. On November 30, the USDA […]
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More productive U.S. national forests and grasslands could yield less water future climate
2016-04-21 09:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phys.Org: A warmer climate may lead to higher growth and productivity on U.S. national forests and grasslands, but university and U.S. Forest Service researchers say this could reduce quantities of freshwater flowing from most of these lands, even with increases in precipitation. Results were published today in Scientific Reports. "The national forests and grasslands managed by the U.S. Forest Service represent only 9 percent of the U.S. land area,...
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In grasslands, longer spring growing season offsets higher summer temperatures
2016-03-01 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Grasslands across North America will face higher summer temperatures and widespread drought by the end of the century, according to a new study. But those negative effects in vegetation growth will be largely offset, the research predicts, by an earlier start to the spring growing season and warmer winter temperatures. Led by ecologists Andrew Richardson and Koen Hufkens of Harvard University, a team of researchers developed a detailed model that enables predictions of how grasslands from Canada...
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Trees tell story regreening West African grasslands
2015-10-06 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Regrowth of trees explains why grasslands in western Africa known as the Sahel have recovered after devastating droughts in the 1970s and 1980s, according to South Dakota State University professor Niall Hanan. The Sahel is a semiarid region with grasslands and scattered trees sandwiched between the Sahara Desert to the north and tropical savannas to the south. Hanan, a senior scientist at the Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, and colleagues postdoctoral research associate Armel Kaptué...
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