Water sustainability in agriculture
Subtitle: proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual conference of the National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, hosted by the University of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, Fayetteville, June 11-13, 2012
By: edited by Allan Eaglesham, Ken Korth, and Ralph W.F. Hardy
Contributors: Eaglesham, Allan; Korth, Kenneth L.; Hardy, Ralph W. F., 1934-; National Agricultural Biotechnology Council (U.S.)
Series: NABC report -- 24; NABC report -- 24.
Publisher: National Agricultural Biotechnology Council
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Water-supply, Agricultural; Congresses; Water use; Agriculture
Description: "To foster discussion on these issues, NABC 23 was organized around four topic areas: [1] Agricultural adaptations to water needs; [2] Developments to water management and policy; [3] Changing role of agriculture in environmental and soncumer issues; and [4] Preparing for future challenges of water issues. A cross-section of interdisciplinary talks was presented to 83 attendees by excellent speakers--from academia, industry, farming, research centers and federal agencies--and at the conclusion of each session, the presenters convened for panel question-and-answer sessions, to reflect on the issues raised and to take comments and questions from the audience. As is traditional at NABC meetings, attendees had additional opportunity for discussion during breakout workshop sessions"--P. vii.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Water sustainability in agriculture  -- Kenneth L. Korth; title: The Lake Winnipeg Bioeconomy Project  -- Hank Venema; title: Technology approaches to drought tolerance at Pioneer  -- Dave Warner; title: We can now solve the 10,000-year-old problem of agriculture  -- Wes Jackson; title: Evaluation of drought-tolerance strategies in cotton  -- Randy D. Allen; title: Reaching the potential of water-quality trading  -- Richard H. Moore; title: Agriculture and sustainable practices: protecting water qualtiy  -- D. Osmond ... [et al.]; title: Agricultural management, water quality and ecology: putting practice into policy  -- Andrew Sharpley and Helen Jarvie; title: Viewpoints and changing practices of Arkansas rice farmers  -- Ray Vester; title: Introduction to the sustainabilty consortium  -- Sarah Lewis; title: Water conservation planning: How a systems approach to irrigation promotes sustainable water use ; title: Michael E. Sullivan and Walter M. Delp --; title: Tyson Foods, Inc., sustainable water-use assessment: A study conducted by the Center for Agriculture and Rural Sustainability at the University of Arkansas  -- Jamie Burr -- The economics of pest-controlling biotecnology / -- David Zilberman; title: Optimizing agricultural water for food, the environment and urban use  -- Reagan M. Waskom; title: A producer-led framework to assess water sustainability in agriculture: the NISA example  -- Jed Colquhoun; title: Water for food: everyone's challenge  -- Mark Andreini; title: Student voice report -- -- Posters:; title: Growing rice with less water ;; title: Developing a web-based forecasting tool for nutrient management ;; title: Mass cultivation of mixotrophic algae for biofuels production and wastewater treatment ;; title: Possible benefits of introducing strip tillage to improve farming practices and water quality ;; title: Bioremediation of swine wastewater using attached algae production ;; title: A metabolic profiling technique to assess the regulation of stress-protectant compounds in Fusarium verticillioides --; title: Geophysical based site-specific mapping of fragic properties to constrain hillslope hydrologic controls on variable source area hydrology ;; title: Sustainable 'water' sanitizer: evaluating sanitizing effects of neutral electrochemically activated water on foodborne pathogens.