by fconte on August 23, 2010
Develop economically optimal winter grazing and bedded pack management for enhanced pasture land quality and reduced energy and feed costs. Neher’s group is responsible for enumerating whole communities of soil nematodes to genus to compute a maturity index, quantify soil aggregate structure and organic carbon.
Lead Department or Center: Plant and Soil Science (PSS)
UVM Partners: Linda Berlin, Jennifer Colby, Rachel Gilker, and Allen Matthews, Center for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA)
Community Partners: Tom Gilbert, Executive Director, Highfields Center for Composting
Project Timing: August 16, 2008 – August 15, 2011
More Info: Deborah Neher, Professor & Department Chairperson, PSS, deborah.neher@uvm.edu
Tagged as:
energy,
feed,
Plant & Soil Science,
soil
by fconte on August 23, 2010
Quantifying the effects of crop rotation and tillage on soil suppressiveness to soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines). Neher’s group is responsible for soil community composition and food web structure of predaceous, fungivorous and bacterivorous nematodes and microbes associated with associated with biocontrol agents.
Lead Department or Center: Plant and Soil Science (PSS)
Community Partner: Senyu Chen, University of Minnesota Southern Research and Outreach Center
Project Timing: January 15, 2009 – January 14, 2013
More Info: Deborah Neher, Professor & Department Chairperson, PSS, deborah.neher@uvm.edu
Tagged as:
disease,
Plant & Soil Science,
production,
soil
