Integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS) can be productive, sustainable, and climate-
resilient agricultural systems compared to specialized and intensive systems. This review …

Crops and livestock play a synergistic role in global food production and farmer livelihoods.
Increasingly, however, crops and livestock are produced in isolation, particularly in farms …

Most cropland in the United States is characterized by large monocultures, whose
productivity is maintained through a strong reliance on costly tillage, external fertilizers, and …

Sustainability of agricultural production and mitigation of global warming rely on the
regeneration of soil organic carbon (SOC), in particulate organic carbon (POC) and mineral …

While characteristics of semi-arid climates place limitations on soil organic carbon (SOC)
storage, there is opportunity and urgency for increasing the quality and long-term …

Abstract Large-scale, energy-intensive, specialized production systems have dominated
agricultural production in the United States for the past half-century. Although highly …

Integração lavoura-pecuária (ILP) se constitui em sistema de produção que alterna, na
mesma área, o cultivo de pastagens anuais ou perenes, destinadas à alimentação animal, e …

Conservation agricultural systems rely on three principles to enhance ecosystem
services:(1) minimizing soil disturbance,(2) maximizing soil surface cover and (3) stimulating …

Managing grazing stocks in integrated crop–livestock (ICL) systems under no-tillage is a key
variable for reaching equilibrium in soil C and N budgets. Understanding how different plant …

Production systems that feature temporal and spatial integration of crop and livestock
enterprises, also known as integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS), have the potential to …