No-Till On The Plains 2008 Winter Conference -
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Published on: 9/25/2007
Last Visited: 1/9/2009
The all-star lineup features names such as Amado, Anderson, Beck, Bieber, Brown, Cott, Duiker, Forgey, Frenzen, Gadzia, Hatfield, Holle, Humburg, Jasa, Mindemann, Needham, Nichols, Ruwoldt, Smith, Ward, Watson, and Wiltse.
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Over 150 people attended the symposium and heard valuable cover crop information from Gabe Brown, Ken Miller, Kris Nichols, Gary Maskus, Telmo Amado, and Mark Watson.
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Telmo Amado, University of Santa Maria, Brazil
Brazilian No-till: Last advances in soil carbon management and improvements in cropping systems Since the 90's No-till had a fast farm adoption in Brazil achieving more than 24 millions of hectares.
In tropical and subtropical climate the requirement for soil crop residue input is much higher than in temperate environment.
This demand had been supplied by an intensive cover crops and crop rotation systems -- new tools as precision agriculture has been useful to improve cropping systems management.
Dr. Telmo Jorge Carneiro Amado is a Full Professor of Soil Conservation at the Federal University of Santa Maria in RS Brazil.
He obtained his Ph.D. in Soil Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul / Auburn Univ., 1997.
His research area of specialization is No-tillage systems, carbon sequestration in agriculture, cover crops and soil rehabilitation, soil quality, residue management, water and wind erosion control, tropical agriculture, sustainable agriculture, nitrogen cycle.
Telmo is on sabbatical at KSU and is currently an adjunct faculty member there.