Dr. Walther - APES Agricultural Project: Dr. Walther's picks

Organic agriculture versus conventional agriculture (using integrated pest management)

• National Pesticide Information Center
• Integrated pest management
• Integrated pest management
• USDA organic certification
• EU organic certification
• Is organic agriculture better for the environment?
• Scientific American position piece
• National Center for Food and Agricultural policy report
• Perception of organic foods
• Soil fertility and organic farming

Monoculture and mono-cropping versus polyculture

• Monoculture farming EOS
• Intercropping EOS

Irrigation or no irrigation

• Missouri State Irrigation methods
• Video about irrigation

CAFO versus free-range livestock

• Human health and CAFOs
• Pigs in Space
• Phosphorus recycling
• Waste to energy system
• Understanding CAFOs
• Pew Report
• National Pork Producers and WOTUS
• EPA animal production regulatory page
• Missouri CAFO information

Wild-caught fish versus aquaculture

• Fisheries and poverty
• Precision fish farming
• Hybridization of farmed and wild fish
• Life cycle analysis of fish
• Factors influencing antimicrobial use in aquaculture
• Shellfish remove nitrogen
• Organic contaminants in farmed fish
• Aquaculture in Bangladesh
• Farmed versus wild salmon
• EPA animal production regulatory page

GMO versus plants/animals produced by traditional breeding

• Grist Magazine's Panic-Free GMOs collection
• Insecticides and toxic slugs
• Neonicotinoids and seed treatments

Antibiotic use in livestock

• Public acceptance of antibiotic use
• Natural feed additives as alternative to in-feed medication
• Policy roadmap for decreasing antibiotic use
• Combating the Complex Global Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance
• National Pork Producers Position
• EPA animal production regulatory page

Hormone use in livestock

• FDA on BST
• FDA response to citizen petition to ban rBST
• Estrogen as an environmental pollutant
• Impact of environmental estrogens
• EPA animal production regulatory page
• rBST decreases environmental impact
• Facts about rBST from Cornell Animal Sciences professor
• Use of steroid hormone implants in animals

No-till or reduced-tillage versus conventional tillage

• University of Nebraska advantages and disadvantages of tillage techniques
• Tillage and soil health

Organic versus inorganic fertilizer use

• Oregon State Extension
• Phosphorus risk
• Organic fertilizers and plants
• Soil fertility and organic farming
• Managing surface water quality

Green revolution - overall improvement in agriculture or not?

• Assessing the impact of the green revolution
• Greening of the green revolution
• UNRISD chapter about green revolution
• Environmental impact of green revolution
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