Research from the ARS Pasture Systems and Watershed Management Research
Unit, University Park
The PSWMRU, sometimes known as the
Pasture Lab, is an Agricultural Research
Service research site. The PSWMRU pursues projects related to the
profitability and sustainability of Northeastern grazing lands. Although based
in University Park, PA, scientists from the PSWMRU work on farms and research
sites throughout the Northeast.
- Productivity of
simple and complex mixtures of forages compared in on-farm
pastures
Matt Sanderson, Howard Skinner and Benjamin Tracy
- On-farm comparisons of
carbon uptake and partitioning to roots in simple and complex pasture
mixtures
Howard Skinner, Matt Sanderson and Benjamin Tracy
- Switchgrass and big
bluestem response to spring burning and glyphosate application: Hay, biomass,
and seed yields
M.A. Sanderson, R.R. Schnabel, W.S. Curran, W.L. Stout,
D. Genito and B.F. Tracy
- Simulation to study the
environmental impact and profitability of beef farms
Alan Rotz, Dennis
Buckmaster and John Comerford
- Nitrogen losses from
pasture
Alan Rotz
- Ammonia emissions from Pennsylvania
dairy farms
Alan Rotz
- Implications of forage management
on farm profitability and the environment
Alan Rotz
- Pasture assessment in the
northeast United States
Matt Sanderson, Sarah Goslee, and James Cropper
- Pasture plant
communities in the Northeast
Sarah Goslee, Matt Sanderson and Jeff
Gonet
- A Survey of total mixed ration
use on pasture-based dairy farms in New York and Pennsylvania
Kathy
Soder
- Plant diversity - The
spice of life for pastures? (presentation)
Matt Sanderson
- Tapping into the
pasture seed bank (presentation)
Matt Sanderson
- Assessment and
monitoring of grazing lands in the northeastern United States
(presentation)
Matt Sanderson, Sarah Goslee, Ray Bryant, Benjamin Tracy
and Howard Skinner