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DOI	10.3389/fsufs.2020.00114
	Beef Production in the Southwestern United States: Strategies Toward Sustainability
	Spiegal, Sheri; Cibils, Andres F.; Bestelmeyer, Brandon T.; Steiner, Jean L.; Estell, Richard E.; Archer, David W.; Auvermann, Brent W.; Bestelmeyer, Stephanie, V; Boucheron, Laura E.; Cao, Huiping; Cox, Andrew R.; Devlin, Daniel; Duff, Glenn C.; Ehlers, Kristy K.; Elias, Emile H.; Gifford, Craig A.; Gonzalez, Alfredo L.; Holland, John P.; Jennings, Jenny S.; Marshall, Ann M.; McCracken, David, I; McIntosh, Matthew M.; Miller, Rhonda; Musumba, Mark; Paulin, Robert; Place, Sara E.; Redd, Matthew; Rotz, C. Alan; Tolle, Cindy; Waterhouse, Anthony
通讯作者	Spiegal, S
来源期刊	FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
EISSN	2571-581X
出版年	2020
卷号	4
英文摘要	From grazing lands to meat packing, beef production systems in the United States are striving to meet global demands without compromising environmental quality or local profitability. These challenges and opportunities are manifest in four US regions connected ecologically and socially through beef production: the American Southwest, the Ogallala Aquifer region, the Northern Plains, and the Upper Midwestern Corn Belt. Most calves raised on extensive, arid Southwestern ranches are exported to the Ogallala Aquifer region for finishing on grains that are grown either locally on Ogallala Aquifer water or imported from the Upper Midwest. Changes in climate, vegetation, and human demographics threaten the sustainability of the regionally-interconnected system. Heritage cattle genetics, precision ranching, and alternative supply chain options are three strategies that show promise for addressing these sustainability threats, but major knowledge gaps exist. For instance, while environmentally-friendly landscape use by Raramuri Criollo, a heritage cattle type, has been identified in several arid rangeland settings, little is known about their performance in conventional feed yards. While precision agriculture is already prevalent in croplands, less is known about how such technologies can be cost effective in arid rangelands. Moreover, many perceive grass-finishing on rangeland as environmentally friendly and beneficial for local agricultural communities, but tradeoffs involving greenhouse gas emissions, increased rangeland use, and disruption of cattle feeding systems of the Ogallala Aquifer region must be assessed. Here we introduce a USDA-NIFA Coordinated Agricultural Project designed to fill these knowledge gaps and advance sustainability of beef production linked to the US Southwest. With a boundary-spanning approach of education, participatory research, and extension, the project is identifying tradeoffs of the three strategies with explicit attention to pericoupling (i.e., socioeconomic and environmental interactions) of regions connected by beef production and full consideration of the coupled ecological and social systems within those regions.
英文关键词	Southwestern United States rangelands sustainable agricultural systems Coordinated Agricultural Project pericoupling framework
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	DOAJ Gold
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000566250200001
WOS关键词	CLIMATE-CHANGE ; CATTLE ; AGRICULTURE ; LIVESTOCK ; TRENDS
WOS类目	Food Science & Technology
WOS研究方向	Food Science & Technology
来源机构	New Mexico State University
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/334577
作者单位	[Spiegal, Sheri; Bestelmeyer, Brandon T.; Estell, Richard E.; Elias, Emile H.; Gonzalez, Alfredo L.] USDA ARS Jornada Expt Range, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA; [Cibils, Andres F.; Steiner, Jean L.; Duff, Glenn C.; McIntosh, Matthew M.; Musumba, Mark] New Mexico State Univ, Dept Anim & Range Sci, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA; [Archer, David W.] USDA ARS, Northern Great Plains Res Lab, Mandan, ND USA; [Auvermann, Brent W.; Jennings, Jenny S.] Texas A&M AgriLife Res, Amarillo, TX USA; [Bestelmeyer, Stephanie, V] Asombro Inst Sci Educ, Las Cruces, NM USA; [Boucheron, Laura E.] New Mexico State Univ, Klipsch Sch Elect & Comp Engn, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA; [Cao, Huiping] New Mexico State Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA; [Cox, Andrew R.] New Mexico State Univ, Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Res Ctr, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA; [Devlin, Daniel] Kansas State Univ, Kansas Ctr Agr Resources & Environm, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA; [Devlin, Daniel] Kansas State Univ, Kansas Water Resources Inst, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Spiegal, Sheri,Cibils, Andres F.,Bestelmeyer, Brandon T.,et al. Beef Production in the Southwestern United States: Strategies Toward Sustainability[J]. New Mexico State University,2020,4.
APA	Spiegal, Sheri.,Cibils, Andres F..,Bestelmeyer, Brandon T..,Steiner, Jean L..,Estell, Richard E..,...&Waterhouse, Anthony.(2020).Beef Production in the Southwestern United States: Strategies Toward Sustainability.FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS,4.
MLA	Spiegal, Sheri,et al."Beef Production in the Southwestern United States: Strategies Toward Sustainability".FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS 4(2020).