Our latest Quarterly Progress Report is now available for download here. Catch up on our research team’s efforts to achieve our goal of developing and increasing the reliability of perennial ground cover systems.
Dr. Cynthia Bartel and her writing team honored by Agronomy Journal
Congratulations to RegenPGC’s Dr. Cynthia Bartel and her co-authors (Kenneth J. Moore, Shui-Zhang Fei, Andrew Lenssen, Roger L. Hintz & Samantha M. Kling) on having their paper “Evaluating Chemical Suppression Treatments to Alter the Red: Far-Red Ratio in Perennial Groundcovers for Maize Production” selected as an Agronomy Journal “Editor’s Choice Article” for the year 2022.
The article is available as an Open-Access publication at http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/12/8/1854.
“Editor’s Choice articles are based on recommendations by the scientific editors of MDPI journals from around the world. Editors select a small number of articles recently published in the journal that they believe will be particularly interesting to readers or important in the respective research area. The aim is to provide a snapshot of some of the most exciting work published in the various research areas of the journal.”
RegenPGC in a podcast? You bet!
RegenPGC Project Director Dr. Raj Raman was a guest on a recent episode of the Cereal Grain Café podcast. Hosted by self-described “Food Engineer” Dr. Kurt Rosentrater (Iowa State Univ. Ag & Biosystems Engineering), this Cereal Grain Café episode focused on the question “Is perennial ground cover the future of agriculture?”
Naturally, Dr. Raman had much to say about the potential role of perennial ground covers in making agriculture more resilient to the challenges posed by modern and intensive farming practices in the USA.
Access the entire Cereal Grain Café lineup here.
Improving farmer communication
RegenPGC graduate student Philip Ekow Rockson (Iowa State University) has been busy with his RegenPCG mentors D.Raj Raman and Dan Andersen, developing improved ways to communicate cropping system requirements as they pertain to the time and effort needed to deploy perennial ground cover.
Check out his initial work in this poster, “Operations Visualizers (FOVs) that readily communicate and represent requirements of cropping systems,” for the Summer 2023 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting in Omaha.