Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center

Recent papers from Dale Bumpers Small Farms Research Center

1. Cover crops improve soil health across termination strategies in organic cropping systems of the Mid‐South United StatesAgronomy Journal · 2026
2. Characterizing sheep production environments Defining production environments in U.S. sheep populations: clustering climate conditions and management practicesJournal of Animal Science · 2026
3. Forage mass, accumulation, and nutritive value of four perennial forages grown in a loblolly pine silvopasture in the Mid‐South United StatesAgrosystems Geosciences & Environment · 2026
4. Soil health assessment on Native American agricultural land in the semiarid southwestVadose Zone Journal · 2026
5. Assessing the effect of harvest period and wilting on the fermentation characteristics and nutritional parameters of North American elderberry silageAgroforestry Systems · 2026
6. Estimates of genetic parameters and genetic trends for body weight, body composition, and reproductive traits in U.S. Suffolk sheepJournal of Animal Science · 2026
7. Grazing and cover crop effects on cover crop biomass and crop productivity during transition to organic productionAgronomy Journal · 2026
8. Crop yield and weed community response to cover crop termination strategies under organic management in the US Mid‐SouthAgronomy Journal · 2026
9. Management practices of five U.S. sheep breeds: insights from a producer surveyTranslational Animal Science · 2026
10. Multivariate evaluation of soil-water-plant health in multifunctional buffer-strip systemsThe Science of The Total Environment · 2026
11. Genetic Parameters and Genome‐Wide Association Studies for Fertility and Reproduction Traits in U.S. Katahdin Sheep Based on the Single‐Step GBLUP MethodologyJournal of Animal Breeding and Genetics · 2026
12. Digital Soil Mapping for Agri-Environmental Management and SustainabilityLand · 2026
13. Harvesting insights: interpretable machine learning to understand environmental drivers of U.S. maize and soybean yieldScientific Reports · 2026
14. The cotton historical lines project—Part I: History and field evaluationCrop Science · 2026
15. Free‐access geospatial data and machine learning deliver high‐resolution soil salinity maps in the Sonoran Basin and RangeVadose Zone Journal · 2026
16. Soil organic carbon, nitrogen, and enzyme activity in glaciated-derived agricultural landscapes of the U.S. MidwestCATENA · 2026
17. Evaluating groundwater–surface water interactions at selected streams in the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer, USA, and comparison to regional potentiometric surfacesHydrogeology Journal · 2025
18. Leveraging digital soil maps and clustering techniques to enhance soil management zone delineationAgronomy Journal · 2025
19. Forage mass and botanical composition of four annual forages grown in a loblolly pine silvopasture in the Mid‐South USACrop Forage & Turfgrass Management · 2025
20. Genotyping strategies for single-step genomic predictions in a simulated sheep population under different scenarios of pedigree error typesFrontiers in Genetics · 2025