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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SUSTAINABILITY OF FARMING SYSTEMS
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
COMPLETE
Funding Source
HATCH
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
1005494
Grant No.
(N/A)
Cumulative Award Amt.
(N/A)
Proposal No.
(N/A)
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Jan 1, 2015
Project End Date
Mar 31, 2019
Grant Year
(N/A)
Program Code
[(N/A)]- (N/A)
Recipient Organization
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG
PULLMAN,WA 99164-0001
Performing Department
Crop & Soil Sciences
Non Technical Summary
Farmers and consumers are raising serious questions about the sustainability of conventional farming systems because of their energy-intensive nature and their negative impacts on soil productivity, environmental quality, profitability, and human and animal health. A research thrust toward developing sustainable agricultural systems should be pursued because farmers and consumers are asking for this type of research, and because it can give farmers more options. This project examines the potential of alternative farming systems, such as organic, integrated, biodynamic, conservation agriculture, and perennial grain, in order to reduce some of the negative effects of conventional agriculture. It analyzes the production, environmental, economic, and social sustainability of alternative and conventional farming systems, using replicated experimental plots on both commercial farms and experiment stations or using adjacent fields of replicated commercial farm pairs. Indicators of sustainability include soil quality, crop yield and quality, financial performance, environmental impact, and social wellbeing. Cropping systems studied include, but are not limited to, apple, strawberry, winegrape, vegetable, and grain-based systems. Experience gained from this research will contribute to improvements in the production practices of alternative growers and in the ability of conventional growers to adopt more sustainable management approaches. This research will expand economic opportunities for farmers and promote reduced use of agrochemicals.
Animal Health Component
40%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
40%
Applied
40%
Developmental
20%
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
2051199107010%
1010199206110%
2051599107010%
2051699107010%
6011599301010%
7011499106010%
2161119107010%
2151599107010%
8036099303010%
9036050302010%
Knowledge Area
601 - Economics of Agricultural Production and Farm Management; 803 - Sociological and Technological Change Affecting Individuals, Families, and Communities; 205 - Plant Management Systems; 215 - Biological Control of Pests Affecting Plants; 216 - Integrated Pest Management Systems; 101 - Appraisal of Soil Resources; 903 - Communication, Education, and Information Delivery; 701 - Nutrient Composition of Food;

Subject Of Investigation
1499 - Vegetables, general/other; 1119 - Deciduous tree fruits, general/other; 1699 - Pasture and forage crops, general/other; 1199 - Deciduous and small fruits, general/other; 1599 - Grain crops, general/other; 0199 - Soil and land, general; 6099 - People and communities, general/other; 6050 - Communities, areas, and regions;

Field Of Science
1060 - Biology (whole systems); 1070 - Ecology; 3020 - Education; 2061 - Pedology; 3010 - Economics; 3030 - Information and communication;
Goals / Objectives
The overall goal of the project is to measure the production, environmental, economic, and social sustainability of alternative and conventional farming systems. Supporting objectives to meet this goal are as follows:1. To measure crop yield and quality, including disease, insect, and weed incidence, on alternative and conventional farming systems;2. To assess soil quality and other environmental parameters of alternative and conventional farming systems;3. To evaluate the financial performance, including costs, benefit/cost ratios, and net present values, of alternative and conventional farming systems; and4. To assess the social impacts of alternative and conventional farming systems.
Project Methods
Indicators of sustainability measured on plots or farms of alternative and conventional systems include crop yield and quality; disease, insect, and weed incidence; soil quality and other environmental parameters;financial performance; andsocial parameters. Crop yield and quality include above ground biomass production, grain/fruit yield, harvest index, protein, nutritional content, and seed size, hardness, and color. We will determine population densities and diversity of insect pests (e.g., aphids and lygus bugs) and natural enemy communities in each plot or field, which will usually be sampled three times per growing season (June, July, August), the peak activity period of these insects.Weed seed bank sampling will be performed following harvest and quantified by a greenhouse grow-out of surface soil samples.Soil quality is assessed by measuring numerous physical (e.g., bulk density, water content, aggregatestability, particle-size analysis, and structure), chemical (e.g., pH, EC, total N, NH4-N, N03-N, P, and K), and biological (e.g.,earthworms, organic matter, readily oxidizable organic carbon, microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen, nematode communitystructure, and mineralizable nitrogen) properties. Environmental quality includes measuring soil erosion rates, potential nitrateand pesticide contamination of groundwater, water quality, energy efficiency of farming operations, and greenhouse gases (e.g., methane, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide).Financial performance includes farming systementerprise budgets, costs, returns, cost/benefit ratios, and net present values.Social parameters will be conducted by interviewing growers. For example, by conducting in-depth interviews with growers, we will better understand how specific management practices on orchards impact the entire orchard system (pests, soil, natural enemies, vegetative and fruit quality, and economic returns) and how to apply this information to reduce management costs, crop damage, and environmental impacts.

Progress 01/01/15 to 03/31/19

Outputs
Target Audience:Target audiences are farmers, consumers, scientists, industry groups, federal and state agencies, NGOs, international organizations, and policymakers. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The grants listed above funded and provided field and lab training for one postdoc and three PhD graduate students, whom Reganold advises or co-advises. The grants also provided field and lab training for six undergraduate students at Washington State University. Reganold also advises two online M.S. in Agriculture students, who are self-funded. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results this year were published as refereed journal articles. Results were also disseminated as presentations at seminars and conferences. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Reganold (the PD) managed or co-managed 4 competitive grants in the area of farming systems and sustainable agriculture research as follows: (i) WSU Grand Challenges, Nutritional Genomics and Smart Foods, $2,491,430, Co-PD; (ii) USDA-NIFA Organic Agriculture Research & Extension Initiative, Breeding and agronomy of quinoa for organic farming systems, $1,999,950, Co-PD; (iii) USDA-NIFA Predoctoral Fellowship, Developing organic quinoa and grain cropping systems in the Pacific Northwest; $93,657, Co-PD; and (iv) WSU-CAHNRS Ignite Undergraduate Research Internship Program, Organic agriculture research, $2,500, PD. Reganold is also managing one gift [Pacific Foods, Developing the Eggert Family Organic Farm, $9.45Million, PD]. Reganold continued to mentor his five graduate students and advise 15 undergraduate advisees in the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture major. All five of his graduate students work in the research area of sustainability of farming systems. He also advised 25 more undergraduates in the Certificate in Organic Agriculture. Huggins (PD) continued his research in cropping system design by developing aspirational systems for the Long-Term Agroecological Research (LTAR), regional flex cropping options, and the first conservation tillage organic farming system suitable for dryland areas of the Pacific Northwest.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Jones, M.S, Z. Fu, J.P. Reganold, D.S. Karp, T.E. Besser, J.M. Tylianakis, and W.E. Snyder. 2019. Organic farming promotes biotic resistance to food-borne human pathogens. Journal of Applied Ecology 56:11171127. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13365
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: TerAvest, D., P.R. Wandschneider, C. Thierfelder, and J.P. Reganold. 2019. Diversifying conservation agriculture and conventional tillage cropping systems to improve the wellbeing of smallholder farmers in Malawi. Agricultural Systems 171:2335.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Eyhorn, F., A. Muller, J.P. Reganold, E. Frison, H.R. Herren, L. Luttikholt, A. Mueller, N. Scialabba, V. Seufert, and P. Smith. 2019. Organic farming drives sustainability in global agriculture. Nature Sustainability 2:253255. doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0266-6
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Adewale, C.A., J.P. Reganold, S. Higgins, R.D. Evans, and L.A. Carpenter-Boggs. 2019. Agricultural carbon footprint is farm specific: Case study of two organic farms. Journal of Cleaner Production. doi:org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.04.253
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Orpet, R.J., V.P. Jones, J.P. Reganold, and D.W. Crowder. 2019. Effects of restricting movement between root and canopy populations of woolly apple aphid. PLoS ONE 14(5): e0216424. doi:org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216424
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Clark, I., S.S. Jones, J.P. Reganold, K.A. Sanguinet, and K.M Murphy. 2019. Agronomic performance of perennial grain genotypes in the Palouse Region of the Pacific Northwest, USA. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2019.00039
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Reganold, J.P. What 40 Years of Science Tell Us About Organic Agriculture, Keynote Address, HiPP Scientific Symposium on Organic Food, Kranzberg, Germany, 2018.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2019 Citation: Sintim, H.Y., S. Bandopadhyay, M.E. English, A.I. Bary, J.M. DeBruyn, S.M. Schaeffer, C.A. Miles, J.P. Reganold, and M. Flury. 2019. Impacts of biodegradable plastic mulches on soil health Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 273:36-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2018.12.002


Progress 10/01/17 to 09/30/18

Outputs
Target Audience:Target audiences are farmers, consumers, scientists, industry groups, federal and state agencies, NGOs, international organizations, and policymakers. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The grants listed above funded and provided field and lab training for one postdoc and four PhD graduate students, whom Reganold advises or co-advises. The grants also provided field and lab training for six undergraduate students at Washington State University. Reganold also advises two online M.S. in Agriculture students, who are self-funded. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results this year were published as refereed journal articles, a book chapter, extension videos, and conference abstracts. Results were also disseminated as presentations at seminars and conferences. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The PD and co-PDs plan to continue being effective at managing grants and applying for new competitive grants. They want to continue doing a good job mentoring grad students and advising undergraduate advisees. They also plan to publish results of their research in high-impact and reputable scientific journals and magazines.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Reganold (the PD) managed or co-managed 6 competitive grants in the area of farming systems and sustainable agriculture research as follows: (i) Agronomic Science Foundation, Optimizing cover crop and intercrop N management, $39,485, Co-PD; (ii) USDA-NIFA Organic Transitions, BAN-PESTS: biodiversity and natural pest suppression, $747,955, Co-PD; (iii) WSU Grand Challenges, Nutritional Genomics and Smart Foods, $2,491,430, Co-PD; (iv) USDA-NIFA Organic Agriculture Research & Extension Initiative, Breeding and agronomy of quinoa for organic farming systems, $1,999,950, Co-PD; (v) USDA-NIFA Predoctoral Fellowship, Developing organic quinoa and grain cropping systems in the Pacific Northwest; $93,657, Co-PD; and (vi) WSU-CAHNRS Ignite Undergraduate Research Internship Program, Organic agriculture research, $2,500, PD. Reganold is also managing one gift [Pacific Foods, Developing the Eggert Family Organic Farm, $9.45Million, PD]. Reganold continued to mentor his six graduate students and advise 20 undergraduate advisees in the Organic Agriculture Systems major. All six of his graduate students work in the research area of sustainability of farming systems. Huggins (PD) continued his research in cropping system design by developing aspirational systems for the Long-Term Agroecological Research (LTAR), regional flex cropping options, and the first conservation tillage organic farming system suitable for dryland areas of the Pacific Northwest. Granatstein produced analysis of the Washington State organic sector, with a focus on the rapidly expanding organic tree fruit production. Results were used industry wide to help prepare for major increase In supply. He also ompleted several projects on soil quality, including an economic analysis that showed relatively fast return on investment for soil improvmenet practices, such as organic amendments, cover crops, and high residue farming. Dillman emphasized the diffusion of information on how to design and implement web-push surveys, that were developed at WSU under his ARC supported research, and are now being used worldwide, including the implementation of Censuses in Australia, Japan and Canada, as well as the 2020 U.S. Decennial Census. During the past year he gave invited seminars and workshops in Germany (German Survey Methods Center in Mannheim), Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics), and the United Kingdom (Kantorpublic and a NatCenter/ESS/City University jointly sponsored seminar) at London University. In the United States invited seminars have been presented to the sponsors of CAHPS (Consumer Assessment of Health provider Services) surveys as well as through the American Association for Public Opinion Research and the American Statistical Association.In addition, he has undertaken the conceptual development of procedures to produce communication efforts that will improve response to federal surveys conducted by the Census Bureau and other federal agencies. The cumulative impact of Dillman's research as measured by Google Citation counts has passed 68,000 citations (an increase of about 4,000 during 2018) .

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Brown, T.T., C.M. Lee, C.E. Kruger, J.P. Reganold, and D.R. Huggins. 2017. Comparison of greenhouse gas offset quantification protocols for nitrogen management in dryland wheat cropping systems of the Pacific Northwest. Frontiers in Environmental Science doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00072
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Adewale, C.A., J.P. Reganold, S.S. Higgins, R.D. Evans, and L. Carpenter-Boggs. 2018. Improving carbon footprinting of agricultural systems: Boundaries, tiers, and organic farming. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 71:4148.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Jones, M.S., J.M. Tylianakis, J.P. Reganold, W.E. Snyder. 2018. Dung beetle-mediated soil modification: a data set for analyzing the effects of a recent introduction on soil quality. Ecology. 99:1694-suppinfo.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Pretty, J., T.G. Benton, Z.P. Bharucha, L.V. Dicks, C.B. Flora, H.C.J. Godfray, D. Goulson, S. Hartley, N. Lampkin, C. Morris, G. Pierzynski, P.V.V. Prasad, J. Reganold, J. Rockstr�m, P. Smith, P. Thorne, and S. Wratten. 2018. Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification. Nature Sustainability. 1:441446.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Blubaugh, C.K., L. Carpenter-Boggs, J.P. Reganold, R.N. Schaeffer, and W.E. Snyder. 2018. Bacteria and competing herbivores weaken top-down and bottom-up aphid suppression. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9:1239. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01239
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Orpet, R.J., V.P. Jones, J.P. Reganold, and D.W. Crowder. 2018. Effects of restricting movement of an aphid pest between its root and canopy populations. Environmental Entomology. In review.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Adewale, C.A., J.P. Reganold, S. Higgins, R.D. Evans, and L.A. Carpenter-Boggs. 2018. Agricultural carbon footprint is farm specific: Case study of two organic farms. Journal of Cleaner Production. In review.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Sintim, H.Y., S. Bandopadhyay, M.E. English, A.I. Bary, J.M. DeBruyn, S.M. Schaeffer, C.A. Miles, J.P. Reganold, and M. Flury. 2018. Impacts of biodegradable plastic mulch on soil health. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. In review.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Eyhorn, F., A. Muller, J.P. Reganold, E. Frison, H.R. Herren, L. Luttikholt, A. Mueller, N. Scialabba, V. Seufert, and P. Smith. 2018. Driving sustainability of global agriculture through organic farming. Nature Sustainability. In review.
  • Type: Book Chapters Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Sandhu, H., S.D. Wratten, J.R. Porter, R. Constanza, J. Pretty, and J.P. Reganold. 2018. Biodiversity enhanced global agriculture: Mainstreaming ecosystem services into future farming. In Diana Ayton-Shenker (ed.) A New Global Agenda: Priorities, Practices, and Pathways of the International Community. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, New York, NY. pp. 205-213.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Jones, M.S, Z. Fu, J.P. Reganold, D.S. Karp, T.E. Besser, J.M. Tylianakis, and W.E. Snyder. 2018. Organic farming promotes biotic resistance to food-borne human pathogens. Journal of Applied Ecology. In review.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: TerAvest, D., P.R. Wandschneider, C. Thierfelder, and J.P. Reganold. 2018. Diversifying conservation agriculture and conventional tillage cropping systems to improve the wellbeing of smallholder farmers in Malawi. Agricultural Systems. In review.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Accepted Year Published: 2018 Citation: Davis, A.G., J.M. Wachter, L. Carpenter-Boggs, D.R. Huggins, and J.P. Reganold. 2018. Soil microbial community and biological function in organic and mixed crop-livestock systems on the Palouse. Soil Science Society of America Abstracts, Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Reganold, J.P. Sustainable Farming Systems in the 21st Century, Invited Seminar in "Hope in the Anthropocene: Sustainability Inspirations and Solutions series., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2017.
  • Type: Book Chapters Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Granatstein, D. and G. Peck. 2017. Assessing the environmental impact and sustainability of apple cultivation. P. 523-549. IN: K. Evans (ed.). Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Apples. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, London.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Sullivan, T., Sullivan, D., Granatstein, D. 2018. Influence of living mulches on vole populations and feeding damage to apple trees. Crop Protection 108:78-86.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Granatstein, D., J. Davenport, and E. Kirby. 2017. Growing legumes in orchard alleys as an internal nitrogen source. HortSci 52:1283-1287.
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Tozer, P., S. Galinato, A. Mcguire, and D. Granatstein. 2018. An economic analysis of three soil improvement practices in the Columbia Basin, Washington State. TB47E, Washington State University Extension, Pullman, WA. 12 pp. http://pubs.cahnrs.wsu.edu/publications/pubs/tb47e/
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Kirby, E. and D. Granatstein. 2017. Certified organic acreage and sales in Washington State: 2007-2015. TB43, Washington State University Extension, Pulllman, WA. 15 pp.
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: DuPont, T., K. Johnson, R. Elkins, T. Smith and D. Granatstein. 2017. Organic fire blight management in the western U.S. eXtension. http://articles.extension.org/pages/74505/organic-fire-blight-management-in-the-western-us
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Granatstein, D., A. McGuire, and M. Amara. 2017. Improving soil quality on irrigated soils in the Columbia Basin. FS252E, Washington State University Extension, Pullman, WA. 8 pp.
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: McGuire, A., D. Granatstein, and M. Amara. 2017. An evaluation of soil improvement practices being used on irrigated soils in the Columbia Basin. TB41E, Washington State University Extension, Pullman, WA. 8 pp.
  • Type: Book Chapters Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2018 Citation: Dillman, Don A. 2018, Chapter 2. Asking the right Questions in the right way: six needed changes in questionnaire evaluation and testing methods. Advances in Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation, and Testing, edited by P. Beatty, D. Collins, L. Kaye, J. Padilla, G. Willis, and A. Wilmot. Wiley: Hoboken, NJ. Dillman, Don A. In Press. Chapter 2. Asking the right Questions in the right way: six needed changes in questionnaire evaluation and testing methods. Advances in Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation, and Testing, edited by P. Beatty, D. Collins, L. Kaye, J. Padilla, G. Willis, and A. Wilmot. Wiley: Hoboken, NJ. In press.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Barragan-Iglesias, J., *Sablani, S. S., Mendez-Laguna, L. L., Rodriguez-Ramirez, J. 2018. Texture analysis of dried papaya (Carica papaya L., cv. Maradol) pretreated with calcium and osmotic dehydration, Drying TechnologyAn International Journal https://doi.org/10.1080/07373937.2018. 1473420
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Kumar, P. K., Bhunia, K., Tang, J., Rasco, B., Takhar, P. S., *Sablani, S. S. 2018. Thermal transition and thermo-physical properties of potato (Solanum tubersum L.) var. Russet brown Journal of Food Measurements and Characterization 12(3): 1572-1580 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11694-018-9772-x
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Quintanilla, A., Mencia, A., Powers, J., Rasco, B., Tang, J., *Sablani, S. S. (2018). Vacuum impregnation of firming agents in red raspberries, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 98: 3706-3714.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Ovissipour, M., Shiroodi, S. G., Rasco, Tang, J., *Sablani, S. S. 2018. Electrolyzed water and mild-thermal processing of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar): reduction of listeria monocytogenes and changes in protein structure, International Journal of Food Microbiology 276:10-19.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Pongpichaiudom, A., Songsermpong, Tang, J., *Sablani, S. S. 2018. Modeling of dielectric and thermal properties of protein-enriched instant noodles as a function of food chemical composition, International Journal of Food Engineering 14 (5-6) 20170205; 1-11.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Wang, J. G., Tang, J. M., Raco, B., Sablani, S. S., Ovissipour, M., Qu, Z. 2018. Kinetics of quality changes of shrimp (Litopenaeu setiferus) during pasteurization, Food and Bioprocess Technology 11: 1027-1038.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Zhang, Y., Zhao, J-H., Ding, Y, Xiao, H-W., Sablani, S. S., Nie, Y., Wu, S-J., Tang, X-M. 2018. Changes in the vitamin C content of mango with water state and ice crystals under state/phase transitions during frozen storage, Journal of Food Engineering 222, 49-53.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Ziyaina, M., Govindan, B. N., Rasco, B., Coffey, T., *Sablani, S. S., Tang, J. 2018. Monitoring shelf life of pasteurized whole milk under refrigerated storage conditions: predictive models for quality loss, Journal of Food Science 83: 409-418.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Ovissipour, M., Liu, C., Unlu, G., Rasco, B., Tang, J. and *Sablani, S. S. 2018. Quality changes in Chum Salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) affected by thermal pasteurization, storage time and packaging materials, Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology DOI: 10.1080/10498850.2017.1417340.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Liu, S., Ozturk, S, Xu, Jie, Kong, F. B., Gray, P., Zhu, M. J., Sablani, S. S., Tang, J. (2018). Microbial validation of radio frequency pasteurization of wheat flour by inoculated pack studies, Journal of Food Engineering 217: 68-74
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Zhang, H., Bhunia, K., Munoz, N., Li, L., Dolgovskij, M., Rasco, B., Tang, J., *Sablani, S. S. 2017. Linking polymer morphology changes to barrier properties of multilayer films utilized for microwave-assisted thermal sterilized foods, Journal of Applied Polymer Science 134, DOI: 10.1002/APP.45481
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Ovissipour, M., Rasco, B., Tang, J. and *Sablani, S. S. 2017. Kinetics of protein degradation and physical changes in thermally processed Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), Food and Bioprocess Technology 10: 1865-1882
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Pokhrel, P., Bermudez-Aguirre, D., Martinez-Flores, H. E., Garnica-Romo, M. G., Sablani, S. S., Tang, J., and Barbosa-Canovas, G. V. 2017. Combined effect of ultrasound and mild temperature to inactivate E. coli in fresh carrot juice and changes on its physicochemical characteristics, Journal of Food Science 82: 2343-2350.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Bornhorst, E. R., Liu, F., Tang, J., Sablani, S. S., Barbosa-C�novas, G. V. 2017. Food quality evaluation using models foods: a comparison study between microwave-assisted and conventional thermal pasteurization processes, Food and Bioprocess Technology 10: 1248-1256.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Beissinger, A., J.R. Goldberger, C.A. Benedict, and D.A. Inglis. 2018. Seed potatoes, virus management, and the non-adoption of an agricultural innovation. Rural Sociology 83(3): 598-629.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Bajaj, P. R., Bhunia, K., Kleiner, L., Joyner, H. S., Smith D., Ganjyal, G. and *Sablani, S. S. 2017. Improving functional properties of pea protein isolate for microencapsulation of flaxseed oil, Journal of Microencapsulation 34:218-230.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Goldberger, J.R. 2018. AFHVS presidential address: Agriculture in the Plastic Age. Agriculture and Human Values. 35(4): 899-904.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Gardner, M., M.F.A. Maliro, J.R. Goldberger, and K.M. Murphy. Assessing the potential adoption of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd) for human consumption in central Malawi. Under review at Agriculture and Food Security.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Goldberger, J.R., and A.C. Detjens. Organic farmers interest in quinoa production in the western United States. Under review at Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2018 Citation: Dentzman, K.E., and J.R. Goldberger. The standard organic: A case study of biodegradable plastic mulch films. Under review at Journal of Rural Studies.
  • Type: Websites Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Dentzman, K. and J.R. Goldberger. 2018. On-Farm Biodegradable Mulch Case Study: Cloudview Farm. Report No. TA-2018-02. Performance and Adoptability of Biodegradable Mulch. https://biodegradablemulch.org
  • Type: Websites Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Dentzman, K. and J.R. Goldberger. 2018. On-Farm Biodegradable Mulch Case Study: Omache Farm. Report No. TA-2018-01. Performance and Adoptability of Biodegradable Mulch. https://biodegradablemulch.org
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Goldberger, J.R. 2018. Agriculture in the Plastic Age. Presidential address at the Joint Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and Association for the Study of Food and Society, Madison, WI. 13-16 June 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Goldberger, J.R. 2018. Reflections on Gender Inequality in the Agricultural Sciences. Invited seminar for the Womens Leadership Workshop Series, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. 10 April 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Dentzman, K. and J.R. Goldberger. 2018. The Standard Organic: A Case Study of Biodegradable Plastic Mulch Films. Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Portland, OR, 26-29, 2018.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Dentzman, K., J.R. Goldberger, and J. Cowan. 2017. Perceptions of Biodegradable Mulch Films: A Case Study of Cloudview Farm. Poster presentation. Tilth Producers of Washington Annual Conference, Vancouver, WA, 10-12 November 2017.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Goldberger, J.R. and S. Schexnayder. 2017. Specialty Crop Growers Perceptions of Soil Health Impacts from Conventional and Biodegradable Plastic Mulches. Invited presentation in "Impacts of Environmental Contamination on Soil Health" symposium at Annual Meeting of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), Tampa, FL, 22-25 October 2017.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Ostrom, M. and J.R. Goldberger. 2017. Market Makers: Exploring Gender Dynamics in the Farmers Market Movement. Food Distribution Research Society (FDRS) Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 20-24 October 2017.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Awaiting Publication Year Published: 2018 Citation: Barth, V.P., Reardon, C.L., Coffey, T., Klein, A.M, Mcfarland, C., Huggins, D.R., Sullivan, T.S. Stratification of soil chemical and microbial properties under no-till management after lime amendment. Applied Soil Ecology. 130:169-177. 2018.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Schlatter, D.C., Kahl, K., Carlson, B.R., Huggins, D.R., Paulitz, T.C. Fungal community composition and diversity vary with soil depths and landscape position in a no-till wheat cropping system. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 94:1-15. doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiy098. 2018.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Spiegal, S.A., Bestelmeyer, B.T., Archer, D.W., Augustine, D.J., Boughton, E., Boughton, R., Clark, P., Derner, J.D., Duncan, E.W., Cavigelli, M.A., Hapeman, C.J., Harmel, R.D., Heilman, P., Holly, M.A., Huggins, D.R., King, K.W., Kleinman, P.J., Liebig, M.A., Locke, M.A., Mccarty, G.W., Millar, N., Mirsky, S.B., Moorman, T.B., Pierson, F.B., Rigby, J.R., Robertson, G., Steiner, J.L., Strickland, T.C., Swain, H., Wienhold, B.J., Wulfhorts, J., Yost, M., Walthall, C.L. Evaluating strategies for sustainable intensification of U.S. agriculture through the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research network. Environmental Research Letters. 13(3):034031. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa779. 2018.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Kostyanovsky, K., Huggins, D.R., Stockle, C., Waldo, S.R., Lamb, B. Developing a flow through chamber system for automated measurements of soil N2O and CO2 emissions. Measurement 113:172-180. 2018.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Maaz, T., Wulfhorst, J.D., McCracken V., Kirkegaard, J., Huggins, D.R., Roth, I., Kaur, H. and Pan, W.L. Economic, policy, and social trends and challenges of introducing oilseed and pulse crops into dryland wheat rotations. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 253:177-194. 2018.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Chi, J., Waldo, S., Pressley, S.N., Russell, E.S., O'Keeffe, P.T., Pan, W.L., Huggins, D.R., St�ckle, C.O., Brooks, E.S., Lamb, B.K. Effects of climatic conditions and management practices on agricultural carbon and water budgets in the Inland Pacific Northwest USA. Journal of Geophysical Research. 122(12):3142-3160. doi.org/10.1002/2017JG004148. 2017.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Chi, J., Maureira, F., Waldo, S., Pressley, S.N, St�ckle, C.O., OKeeffe, P., Pan, W.L., Brooks, E.S, Huggins, D.R., Lamb, B.K. Carbon and water budgets in multiple wheat-based cropping systems in the Inland Pacific Northwest US: Comparison of CropSyst simulations with Eddy Covariance Measurements. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00050. 2017.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Karimi, T., St�ckle, C.O., Higgins, S., Nelson, R.L. and Huggins, D.R. Projected dryland cropping system shifts in the Pacific Northwest in response to climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 5:20. doi:10.3389/fevo.2017.00020. 2017.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Carlson, B.R., L. Carpenter-Boggs S. Higgins, R. Nelson, C.O. St�ckle, and J. Weddell. 2017. Development of a web application for estimating carbon footprints of organic farms. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 142: 211-223.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: St�ckle, C.O., Higgins, S., Nelson, R., Abatzoglou, J., Huggins, D.R., Pan, W.L., Karimi, T., Antle, J., Eigenbrode, S. and Brooks, E. Evaluating opportunities for an increased role of winter crops as adaptation to climate change in dryland cropping systems of the U.S. Inland Pacific Northwest. Climatic Change 146:247261. 2017.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Biabani, A., L. Carpenter-Boggs, A. Gholizadeh, M. Vafaie-Tabar, and M.O Omara. 2018. Reproduction efficiency of Eisenia foetida and substrate changes during vermicomposting of organic materials. Compost Science & Utilization. DOI: 10.1080/1065657X.2018.1463877
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Alam, Z.M., L. Carpenter-Boggs, A. Rahman, M.M. Haque, M.R.U. Miah, M. Moniruzzaman, M.A. Qayume, and H.M. Abdullah. 2017. Water Quality and Resident Perceptions of Declining Ecosystem Services at Shitalakkah Wetland in Narayangonj City. Sustainability of Water Quality and Ecology doi.org/10.1016/j.swaqe.2017.03.002
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2018 Citation: Bielsa, B., Hewitt, S., Reyes-Chin-Wo, S., Jose Rubio-Cabetas, M., Dhingra, A. (2018) Identification of water use efficiency related genes in Garnem almond-peach rootstock using time-course transcriptome analysis. PLoS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205493
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Schaeffer SM, Christian R, Castro-Velasquez N, Hyden B, Lynch-Holm V, Dhingra A (2017) Comparative ultrastructure of fruit plastids in three genetically diverse genotypes of apple (Malus � domestica Borkh.) during development. Plant Cell Reports. doi:10.1007/s00299-017-2179-z
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Ikiz D, Gallardo RK, Dhingra A, Hewitt S. (2017) Assessing consumers preferences and willingness to pay for novel sliced packed fresh pears: A latent class approach. Agribusiness. doi: 10.1002/agr.21532.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Hewitt, S., Kilian, B., Hari, R., Koepke, T., Sharpe, R., & Dhingra, A. (2017). Evaluation of multiple approaches to identify genome-wide polymorphisms in closely related genotypes of sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.). Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2017.03.002


Progress 10/01/16 to 09/30/17

Outputs
Target Audience:Target audiences are farmers, consumers, scientists, industry groups, federal and state agencies, NGOs, international organizations, and policymakers. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The grants listed above funded and provided field and lab training for one postdoc and four PhD graduate students, whom Reganoldadvises or co-advises. The grants also provided field and lab training for one technician and five undergraduate students atWashington State University. Reganold also advises two online M.S. in Agriculture students, who are self-funded. Goldberger organized "Hands-On Biodegradable Plastic Mulch Field Day: Mulch Laying" at Cloudview Farm in Ephrata, WA (5/25/17) and had 30 participants. Goldberger also organized "Hands-On Biodegradable Plastic Mulch Field Day: Till-Down" at Cloudview Farm in Ephrata, WA (10/13/17) and had 20 participants. DATA FOR CONSOLIDATED PROJECT WNP00656: DON DILLMAN - PROJECT DIRECTOR I am constantly receiving input for my research from my participation at conferences (mentioned elsewhere here). I also started by second term as a member of the National Academies Committee on National Statistics, and those meets provide a constant source of information about new work being done by others than may have relevance to my research. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results this year were published as refereed journal articles and conference abstracts and disseminated as presentations at conferences. DATA FOR CONSOLIDATED PROJECT WNP00656: DON DILLMAN - PROJECT DIRECTOR Journal publications, invited presentations at conferences, including workshops and keynote addresses listed earlier in this report. The main new avenue for dissemination during 2017 was the web-push paper published in Survey Methodology. However, as these web-push methods were developed, results from early experiments were published in multiple journals (reported in previous annual reports). At this time dissemination is fairly automatic. There are 8535 new citations to Dillman's work so far in 2017, bringing him to a total of 63,397 for his career. Dissemination occurs through invited presentations (mentioned above), papers presented at professional meetings, which this year included the American Associations for Public Opinion Research, The European Survey Research Association, and the Rural Sociological Society. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?The PD and co-PDs plan to continue being effective at managing grants and applying for new competitive grants. They want to continue doing a good job mentoring grad students and advising undergraduate advisees. They also plan to publish results of their researchin high-impact and reputable scientific journals and magazines.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? Reganold (the PD) managed or co-managed 9 competitive grants in the area of farming systems and sustainable agriculture research as follows: (i) USDA-NIFA Organic Transitions, A natural approach to human-pathogen suppression: Can biodiversity fill thegaps, $498,235, Co-PD; (ii) WSDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, Evaluating aphid pest management and soil quality on organic andconventional apple orchards in Washington, $194,910, Co-PD; (iii) Agronomic Science Foundation, Optimizing cover crop and intercrop N management,$39,485, Co-PD; (iv) USDA-NIFA Organic Transitions, BAN-PESTS: biodiversity and natural pest suppression, $747,955, Co-PD; (v) WSUGrand Challenges, Nutritional Genomics and Smart Foods, $2,491,430, Co-PD; (vi) USDA-NIFA Organic Agriculture Research & ExtensionInitiative, Breeding and agronomy of quinoa for organic farming systems, $1,999,950, Co-PD; (vii) USDA-NIFA Western SARE, IntroducingOrganic Quinoa and Grain Cropping Systems in the Palouse, $24,954. Co-PD; (viii) USDA-NIFA Predoctoral Fellowship, Developingorganic quinoa and grain cropping systems in the Pacific Northwest; $93,657, Co-PD; (ix) WSU-CAHNRS Ignite Undergraduate ResearchInternship Program, Organic agriculture research, $2,500, PD. Reganold is also managing one gift [Pacific Foods, Developing the EggertFamily Organic Farm, $9.45Million, PD]. Reganold continued to mentor his six graduate students and advise his 25 undergraduateadvisees in the Organic Agriculture Systems major. All six of his graduate students work in the research area of sustainability of farmingsystems. Huggins continued his research in cropping system design by developing aspirational systems for the Long-Term Agroecological Research (LTAR), regional flex cropping options, and the first conservation tillage organic farming system suitable for dryland areas of the Pacific Northwest. DATA FOR CONSOLIDATED PROJECT WNP00656: DON DILLMAN - PROJECT DIRECTOR Major Activities: Completed and published, report of work conducted under this project in conjunction with previous ARC projects and WERA 1010 work, "The Promises and Challenges of conducting Web-push surveys". The article was published in the journal, Survey Methodology . New research was begun on finding ways to improving the effectiveness of communications for improving response to rural surveys (briefly described in previous section. Specific Objectives Objective number two--testing of web- and mail mixed-mode strategy was completed. This testing was the culmination of work begun in 2007 under previous ARC projects, aimed at the development of a way to push respondents to the web, instead of responding by mail, in order to lower. Significant results achieved. This year's experiment showed that the "social exchange" approach to designing survey communications was significantly more effective for improving response to environmental surveys than was a marketing approach developed by Robert Cialdini, described by him as "persuasion" theory. Key outcomes. The American Association for Public Opinion Research awarded Don Dillman and five graduate students were award the 2017 Warren Mitofsky Innovator's award for the development of an "effective web-push methodology, which is now widely used in many countries for doing important surveys. Uses included the 2015 Japanese Census, 2016 Australian Census, 2016 Canadian Census, and since 2013, the American Community Survey. It will also be used in the 2020 U.S. Decennial Census. In addition it has been used since 2010 by the National Science Foundation for conducting their annual survey of college graduates. Nearly two dozen major surveys in various countries have been identified as using the basis web-push methodology innovated at Washington State University under Dillman's ARC projects. Co-receipients of the the Mitofsky Award who were recognized at the 2017 AAPOR conference included Jolene Smyth, Leah Christian, Michelle Edwards, Benjamin Messer and Morgan Millar.

Publications

  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Bloom, E.H., J.P. Reganold, and D.W. Crowder. 2017. The global value of ecosystem services on organic and conventional farms. Abstract. Entomological Society of America, Denver, CO.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Goldberger, J.R. 2017. "Use of Plastic Mulches in Strawberry Production: Growers Experiences and Opinions." Invited Speaker in Plasticulture Workshop. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS), Waikoloa, Hawaii.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Ostrom, M.R. and J.R. Goldberger. (2017) "Market Makers: Exploring Gender Dynamics in the Farmers Market Movement." Food Distribution Research Society (FDRS) Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Goldberger, J.R., C. Lyons, L. DeVetter, and K. Dentzman. 2017. "Biodegradable Plastic Mulches for Strawberry Production: Experiences and Opinions of Growers in Three Regions of the United States." Poster presentation. Annual Meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS), Waikoloa, Hawaii.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Cowan, J. and J.R. Goldberger. 2017. "Planning for Tactile Space to Improve Extension Outreach Activities." Annual Meeting of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS), Waikoloa, Hawaii.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Goldberger, J.R. and K. Dentzman. 2017. "Are Farmers Interested in Biodegradable Plastic Mulch Films? Preliminary Results from a Mixed Methods Study of U.S. Specialty Crop Growers." Joint Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and Association for the Study of Food and Society, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Dentzman, K., J.R. Goldberger, and J. Cowan. 2017. "Perceptions of Biodegradable Mulch Films: A Case Study of Cloudview Farm." Poster presentation. Tilth Producers of Washington Annual Conference, Vancouver, WA.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Walters, C.G., Shumway, C.R. and Huggins, D.R. 2017. Impacts of terrain attributes on economics and the environment: costs of reducing potential nitrogen pollution in wheat production. Agricultural Economics 48:143152.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: St�ckle, C.O., Higgins, S., Nelson, R., Abatzoglou, J., Huggins, D.R., Pan, W.L., Karimi, T., Antle, J., Eigenbrode, S. and Brooks, E. 2017. Evaluating opportunities for an increased role of winter crops as adaptation to climate change in dryland cropping systems of the U.S. Inland Pacific Northwest. Climatic Change. doi.org/10.1007/s10584-017-1950-z
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Goldberger, J.R. and S. Schexnayder. 2017. "Specialty Crop Growers Perceptions of Soil Health Impacts from Conventional and Biodegradable Plastic Mulches." Invited Presentation in "Impacts of Environmental Contamination on Soil Health" symposium at Annual Meeting of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), Tampa, FL.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Karimi, T., St�ckle, C.O., Higgins, S., Nelson, R.L. and Huggins, D.R. 2017. Projected Dryland Cropping System Shifts in the Pacific Northwest in Response to Climate Change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00020
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Accepted Year Published: 2017 Citation: Maaz, T., Wulfhorst, J.D., McCracken V., Kirkegaard, J., Huggins, D.R., Roth, I., Kaur, H. and Pan, W.L. 2017. Economic, policy, and social trends and challenges of introducing oilseed and pulse crops into dryland wheat rotations. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. In press.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Accepted Year Published: 2017 Citation: Kostyanovsky, K., Huggins, D.R., Stockle, C., Waldo, S.R., Lamb, B. 2017. Developing a Flow through Chamber System for Automated Measurements of Soil N2O and CO2 Emissions. Measurement. In press.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Chi, J., Maureira, F., Waldo, S., Pressley, S.N, St�ckle, C.O., OKeeffe, P., Pan, W.L., Brooks, E.S, Huggins, D.R., Lamb, B.K. 2017. Carbon and Water Budgets in Multiple Wheat-based Cropping Systems in the Inland Pacific Northwest US: Comparison of CropSyst Simulations with Eddy Covariance Measurements. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00050
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Carlson, B.R., L. Carpenter-Boggs S. Higgins, R. Nelson, C.O. St�ckle, J. Weddell. 2017. Development of a web application for estimating carbon footprints of organic farms. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 142: 211-223.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Alam, Z.M., L. Carpenter-Boggs, A. Rahman, M.M. Haque, M.R.U. Miah, M. Moniruzzaman, M.A. Qayume, H.M. Abdullah. 2017. Water Quality and Resident Perceptions of Declining Ecosystem Services at Shitalakkah Wetland in Narayangonj City. Sustainability of Water Quality and Ecology. doi.org/10.1016/j.swaqe.2017.03.002.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Dillman, D.A. (2017). The promise and challenge of pushing respondents to the Web in mixed-mode surveys. Survey Methodology, Statistics Canada, Catalogue No. 12 001 X, Vol. 43, No. 1. Paper available ast PDF (English) : http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/12-001-x/2017001/article/14836-eng.pdf
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: McMaster, Hope Seib, Cynthia A. LeardMann, Steven Speigle and Don A. Dillman. 2017. An Experimental Comparison of Web-push vs. Paper-only survey Procedures for Conducting an In-Depth health Survey of Military Spouses. BMC Medical Research Methodology. https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-017-0337-1 . April 26, 9 pages
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2017 Citation: Keynote address to Annual Conference of Canadian Statistical Society, June 12, 2017 in Winnipeg Canada.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2017 Citation: Keynote address 28th Nonresponse error workshop, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 21, 2017.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Other Year Published: 2017 Citation: Keynote address, United Nations Conference of European Statisticians, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Shrewsbury, L.H., J.L. Smith, D.R. Huggins, L. Carpenter-Boggs, K. Reardon. 2016. Denitrifier population abundance influences soil denitrification rates in topographically diverse field scale agricultural landscape. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 103:221-231.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Dillman, Don A. 2016. Moving Survey Methodology Forward in our Rapidly Changing World: A Commentary, Journal of Rural Social Sciences December. 31(3): 160-174
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Morrow, J.G., D.R. Huggins, and J.P. Reganold. 2017. Climate change predicted to negatively influence surface soil organic matter of dryland cropping systems in the inland Pacific Northwest, USA. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00010
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Kaur, H., D.R. Huggins, R.A. Rupp, J.T. Abatzoglou, C.O. St�ckle, and J.P. Reganold. 2017. Agro-ecological Class Stability Decreases in Response to Climate Change Projections for the Pacific Northwest, USA. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00074
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Brown, T.T., C.M. Lee, C.E. Kruger, J.P. Reganold, and D.R. Huggins. 2017. Comparison of Greenhouse Gas Offset Quantification Protocols for Nitrogen Management in Dryland Wheat Cropping Systems of the Pacific Northwest. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00072
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2017 Citation: Blubaugh, C.K., J.S. Asplund, S.D. Eigenbrode, M.J. Morra, C.R. Philips, I.E. Popova, J.P. Reganold, and W.E. Snyder. 2017. Dual-guild herbivory disrupts predator-prey interactions in the field. Ecology.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Appleby, A. and J. Reganold. 2017. Efficacy and economic viability of organic herbicides on a young, high-density apple orchard. Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (SURCA), WSU, Pullman, WA. Poster (Winner of the 2017 Crimson Award).
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2017 Citation: Adewale, C.A., J.P. Reganold, S.S. Higgins, D. R. Evans, and L. Carpenter-Boggs. 2017. Improving Carbon Footprinting of Agricultural Systems: Organic Farming as a Case Study. Environmental Impact Assessment Review.
  • Type: Book Chapters Status: Published Year Published: 2017 Citation: Sandhu, H., S.D. Wratten, J.R. Porter, R. Constanza, J. Pretty, and J.P. Reganold. 2017. Biodiversity enhanced global agriculture: Mainstreaming ecosystem services into future farming, In Diana Ayton-Shenker (ed.) A New Global Agenda: Priorities, Practices, and Pathways of the International Community. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, New York, NY.


Progress 10/01/15 to 09/30/16

Outputs
Target Audience:My target audiences are farmers, consumers, scientists, industry groups, federal and state agencies, NGOs, international organizations, and policymakers. Changes/Problems: There were no major problems, delays, deviations, or changes to approved protocol. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? The grants listed above funded and provided field and lab training for one postdoc and four PhD graduate students, whom I advise or co-advise. The grants also provided field and lab training for one technician and five undergraduate students at Washington State University. I also advise two online M.S. in Agriculture students, who is self-funded. For the project in Malawi (funded by the McKnight Foundation), my postdoc is getting training in international research and development. We are also conducting all of our soil and plant analysis in the soils lab in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Bunda College. Here beneficiaries are the lab managers and technicians, as our funding has increased their lab capacity at Bunda College. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Results this year were published as refereed journal articles and conference abstracts and disseminated as presentations at conferences. One of the refereed articles was published as the cover story in the prestigious journal, Nature Plants. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? I plan to continue being effective at managing grants and applying for new competitive grants. I want to continue doing a good job mentoring my grad students and advising my undergraduate advisees. I also plan to publish results of my research in solid scientific journals and magazines.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? In 2016, I managed or co-managed 14 competitive grants in the area of farming systems and sustainable agriculture research as follows: (i) USDA-NIFA Organic Transitions, A natural approach to human-pathogen suppression: Can biodiversity fill the gaps, $498,235, Co-PD; (ii) McKnight Foundation, MultispeQ sensor for plant and soil measurements in Africa, $300,000, Co-PD; (iii) WSDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, Evaluating aphid pest management and soil quality on organic and conventional apple orchards in Washington, $194,910, Co-PD; (iv) Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission, Dynamics of woolly apple aphids on organic and conventional orchards, $113,948, Co-PD; (v) Agronomic Science Foundation, Optimizing cover crop and intercrop N management, $39,485, Co-PD; (vi) WSU-ARC-ERI, Introducing organic quinoa production systems in the Palouse, $20,078, PD; (vii) CSANR BIOAg, Introducing organic quinoa production systems in the Palouse, $20,078, PD; (viii) USDA-NIFA Organic Transitions, BAN-PESTS: biodiversity and natural pest suppression, $747,955, Co-PD; (ix) USDA-NIFA-Organic Transitions, Role of Mixed Crop/Livestock Systems in Transitioning to Dryland Organic Farming in the Pacific Northwest, $695,078, PD; (x) WSU Grand Challenges, Nutritional Genomics and Smart Foods, $2,491,430, Co-PD; (xi) USDA-NIFA Organic Agriculture Research & Extension Initiative, Breeding and agronomy of quinoa for organic farming systems, $1,999,950, Co-PD; (xii) USDA-NIFA Western SARE, Introducing Organic Quinoa and Grain Cropping Systems in the Palouse, $24,954. Co-PD; (xiii) USDA-NIFA Predoctoral Fellowship, Developing organic quinoa and grain cropping systems in the Pacific Northwest; $93,657, Co-PD; (xiv) WSU-CAHNRS Ignite Undergraduate Research Internship Program, Organic agriculture research, $2,500, PD. I am also managing one gift [Pacific Foods, Developing the Eggert Family Organic Farm, $9.45Million, PD]. I continued to do a good job mentoring my six graduate students and advising my 30 undergraduate advisees in the Organic Agriculture Systems major. All six of my graduate students work in the research area of sustainability of farming systems. Three undergraduate advisees graduated in 2016 with a B.S. in Agricultural and Food Systems with a major in Organic Agriculture Systems at Washington State University.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Reganold, J.P. and J.M. Wachter. 2016. Organic agriculture in the 21st century. Nature Plants. 2:e15221. doi: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2015.221.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Morrow, J.G., D.R. Huggins, L.A. Carpenter-Boggs, and J.P. Reganold. 2016. Evaluating measures to assess soil health in long-term agroecosystem trials. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 80:450-462.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Reganold, J.P. and J.D. Glover. 2016. A cure for Africas soil. Scientific American. 314(May):66-69.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Sandhu, H., S. Wratten, J.R. Porter, R. Constanza, J.N. Pretty, and J.P. Reganold. 2016. Mainstreaming ecosystem services into future farming. Solutions. 7(2): 40-47.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Reganold, J.P. and J.M. Wachter. 2016. Reply to Are the claimed benefits of organic agriculture justified? Nature Plants. 2:e16100.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Reganold, J.P. and J.M. Wachter. 2016. Reply to Organic farming and deforestation. Nature Plants. 2:e16101.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2016 Citation: Morrow, J.G., D.R. Huggins, and J.P. Reganold. 2016. Climate change predicted to negatively influence surface soil organic matter of dryland cropping systems in the inland Pacific Northwest, USA. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Reviewed, minor revisions requested.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2016 Citation: Kaur, H., D.R. Huggins, and J.P. Reganold. 2016. Changing bioclimatic drivers increase future uncertainty of dynamic agroecosystem classes of the inland Pacific Northwest. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. In review.
  • Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Reganold, J. 2016. Can we feed 10 billion people on organic farming alone? Op-Ed, The Guardian. 14 Aug 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/aug/14/organic-farming-agriculture-world-hunger.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2016 Citation: Reganold, J. 2016. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems. International Conference on Promoting Sustainable Development in the DPRK, Pyongyang, North Korea.


Progress 01/01/15 to 09/30/15

Outputs
Target Audience:Farmers, consumers, scientists, industry groups, federal and state agencies, NGOs, international organizations, and policymakers. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? The grants listed above funded and provided field and lab training of my five PhD graduate students, whom I advise or co-advise. The grants also provided field and lab training for one technician and five undergraduate students at Washington State University. I also advise one online M.S. in Agriculture student, who is self-funded. For the project in Malawi (funded this year by the McKnight Foundation), my grad student is getting training in international research and development. We are also conducting all of our soil and plant analysis in the soils lab in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Bunda College. Here beneficiaries are the lab managers and technicians, as our funding has increased their lab capacity at Bunda College. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Results this year were published as refereed journal articles and conference abstracts and disseminated as presentations at conferences. Two of the refereed articles were published in prestigious journals, Nature Plants and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? I plan to continue being effective at managing grants and applying for new competitive grants. I want to continue doing a good job mentoring my grad students and advising my undergraduate advisees. I also plan to publish results of my research in solid scientific journals and magazines.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? In 2015, I managed or co-managed ten competitive grants in the area of farming systems research as follows: (i) USDA-NIFA Organic Transitions, A natural approach to human-pathogen suppression: Can biodiversity fill the gaps, $498,235, Co-PI; (ii) McKnight Foundation, MultispeQ sensor for plant and soil measurements in Africa, $300,000, Co-PD; (iii) WSDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, Evaluating aphid pest management and soil quality on organic and conventional apple orchards in Washington, $194,910, Co-PI; (iv) Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission, Dynamics of woolly apple aphids on organic and conventional orchards, $113,948, Co-PI; (v) CSANR BIOAg, Biodiversity and the natural suppression of human pathogens, $39,193, Co-PI; (vi) Agronomic Science Foundation, Optimizing cover crop and intercrop N management, $39,485, Co-PI; (vii) WSU-ARC-ERI, Introducing organic quinoa production systems in the Palouse, $18,950, PD; (viii) CSANR BIOAg, Introducing organic quinoa production systems in the Palouse, $18,950, PD; (ix) USDA-NIFA Organic Transitions, BAN-PESTS: biodiversity and natural pest suppression, $747,955, Co-PI; (x) USDA-NIFA-Organic Transitions, Role of Mixed Crop/Livestock Systems in Transitioning to Dryland Organic Farming in the Pacific Northwest, $695,078, PD; I am also managing one gift [Pacific Foods, Developing the Eggert Family Organic Farm, $9.45Million, PD]. I continued to do a good job mentoring my six graduate students and advising my 30 undergraduate advisees in the Organic Agriculture Systems major. All six of my graduate students work in the research area of sustainability of farming systems. Five undergraduate advisees graduated in 2015 with a B.S. in Agricultural and Food Systems with a major in Organic Agriculture Systems at Washington State University.

Publications

  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Klein, L.R., W.G. Hendrix, J.B. Kaytes, V.I. Lohr, R.D. Sayler , M.E. Swanson, W.J. Elliot, and J.P. Reganold. 2015. Linking ecology and aesthetics in sustainable agricultural landscapes: Lessons from the Palouse region of Washington, U.S.A. Landscape and Urban Planning. 134:195-209.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Sandhu, H., S. Wratten, R. Constanza, J. Pretty, J. R. Porter, and J. Reganold. 2015. Significance and value of non-traded ecosystem services on farmland. PeerJ 3:e762 doi.org.10.7717/peerj.762.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Crowder, D.W. and J.P. Reganold. 2015. Financial competitiveness of organic agriculture on a global scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112:7611-7616.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: TerAvest, D., L. Carpenter-Boggs, C. Thierfelder, and J.P. Reganold. 2015. Crop production and soil water management in conservation agriculture, no-till, and conventional tillage systems in Malawi. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 212:285-296.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Accepted Year Published: 2015 Citation: Reganold, J.P. and J.M. Wachter. 2015. Organic agriculture in the 21st century. Nature Plants. In Press.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Accepted Year Published: 2015 Citation: Morrow, J.G., D.R. Huggins, L. Carpenter-Boggs, and J.P. Reganold. 2015. Evaluating measures of soil C and N to assess soil health in long-term agroecosystem trials of the Inland Pacific Northwest. Soil Science Society of America Journal. In Press.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Accepted Year Published: 2015 Citation: Reganold, J.P. and J.D. Glover. 2015. Perenniation: transforming Africas farmed landscapes. Scientific American. In Press.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Under Review Year Published: 2015 Citation: TerAvest, D., L. Carpenter-Boggs, C. Thierfelder, and J.P. Reganold. 2015. Soil fertility and crop productivity responses to conservation agriculture, crop rotations, and liming on smallholder farms in Malawi. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. In Review.
  • Type: Journal Articles Status: Other Year Published: 2015 Citation: Morrow, J.G., D.R. Huggins, L. Carpenter-Boggs, and J.P. Reganold. 2015. Climate influences surface soil health in the Inland Pacific Northwest. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. In Progress.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Orpet, R., E.E. Beers, J. Reganold, J. Goldberger, V. Jones, and D. Crowder. 2015. Dynamics of woolly apple aphid (Erisoma lanigerum) under organic and conventional orchard management. Abstract. Entomological Society of America (Pacific Branch Meeting), Coeur d'Alene, ID.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Reganold, J.P., and D.W. Crowder. 2015. Moving agriculture toward sustainability in the 21st century. Abstracts. American Society of Agronomy and Entomological Society of America, Madison, WI.
  • Type: Conference Papers and Presentations Status: Published Year Published: 2015 Citation: Reganold, J.P. 2015. Moving agriculture into the 21st century. Tilth Producers of Washington Conference Abstracts, Spokane, WA.