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National Conference on Agriculture

&

Natural Resource Conservation and Management

April 17 – 19, 2008

Program and Schedule

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April 17

 

4:00 – 6:00 p.m.                       Registration                              Baker Annex 

 

6:00 – 7:00 p.m.                       Reception                                 Baker Annex, Room 209/214  

 

April 18

 

7:30 – 9:00 a.m.                       Breakfast                                  Baker Annex, Room 209/204

 

Session I

(Baker Annex, Room 122)

 

9:00 – 9:10 am             Opening Remarks - Dr. Allen Sessoms, President

Delaware State University

 

9:10 – 9:40 am             Agriculture in the State of Delaware

Mr. Michael Scuse, Secretary of Agriculture, State of Delaware

 

Conference Presentation

 

9:40 – 10:00 am           Soil total carbon and nitrogen concentrations of surface and sub-surface soils in corn and soybean fields in central Missouri: impact on fluxes of greenhouse gases - Adisa, S.J., N.V. Nkongolo, N.O. Hoilett, K. Schmidt, R.M. Paro and S.S. Johnson

 

10:00 – 10:20 am         An ecological conceptual model for Monie Bay NERR Site: a case study on watershed ecosystem management - Chunlei Fan

 

10:20 – 10:40 am         Failure of farmers to participate in a soil conservation project in Haiti - Jolly, C.M., A. Binns, D. Shannon, M. Bannister, J. Dale and P. Lindo

 

10:40 – 11:00 am         The role of the Federal Government in maintaining land conservation programs - Tavernier, E. M. and S. Luk

 

11:0 0 – 11:10 am        Break  

 

11:10 – 11: 30 am        Alternative forest resource use - outdoor recreation and rural economies - Kebede, E., J. Schelhas, and J. Haslerig

 

11:30 – 11:50 pm         Activities of five enzymes following soil disturbance and weed control in a Missouri forest - Ponder, F. Jr. and F. Eivazi

                                   

11:50 – 1:00 pm          Lunch                                      Baker Annex, Room 209/214

 

1:00 – 2:00 pm             Panel Presentation

                                    Theme: Application of GIS in agriculture and natural resource management

Panelist: S. Sriharan, V.S. David, Z. Yang, D. Meekins and G. Ozbay.

 

2:00 – 2:10 pm             Break

 

2:10 – 2:30 pm             Monitoring water wells in middle Tennessee with down well camera technology - Dennis, S., D. Duseja, P. Vendrell and A. Wade.

                                   

2:30 – 2:50 pm             Effect of simultaneous application of pesticides on select soil enzyme activities - Eivazi, F.

 

2:50 – 3:10 pm             The economics of timber harvesting on small woodlots - Ejimakor, G., C. Walson, R. Okafor and H. Sutton

 

3:10 – 3:30 pm             Understanding the relationships between microbial biomass, enzyme and greenhouse gas efflux in a secondary forest in Missouri - Hoilett, N.O., N.V. Nkongolo, R.J. Kremer, R.M. Paro,  K. Schmidt, S.S. Johnson and S.J. Adisa

 

3:30 – 3:40 pm             Break  

 

3:40 – 4:00 pm             Ecological risk assessment of metal-contaminated soils using a bacteria-based assay - Yang, J. and Xi Tang

 

 4:00 – 4:20 pm            Characterization and dissolution of metal impurities in multi-walled carbon nanotubes - Hua, B., B. Deng and J. Yang

 

4:20 – 4:50 pm             Baseline concentrations of trace elements in two agricultural soil depths in central Missouri - Adisa, S.J., N.V. Nkongolo, A. Ikem,K. Schmidt, R.M. Paro, N.O. Hoilett and S.S. Johnson

 

4:50 – 5:10 pm             Improved quantification of CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes from soil in agricultural fields in central Missouri - Nkongolo, N.V., K. Schmidt, R.M. Paro, N.O. Hoilett, S. J. Adisa and S.S. Johnson

 

5:10 – 5:30 pm             Fuel prices and substitution of nitrogen fertilizer input in irrigated corn production - Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman, T. Thomas, V. Ofori-Boadu, P. E. Faulkner

 

5:30 – 5:50 pm             Soil thermal properties as potential controlling factors for CO2, N2O and CH4 emissions from a secondary forest in central Missouri - Paro, R.M., N.V. Nkongolo, S.S. Johnson, K. Schmidt, N.O. Hoilett and S.J. Adisa

 

6:00 – 7:00 pm            Dinner             Baker Annex, Room 209/214

                                Speaker Mr. Russel Morgan, State Conservationist, NRCS,   Dover, DE

                                                                                                                      

April 19

Session II

(Baker Annex, Room 122)

 

7:00 – 8:00 a.m.           Breakfast                                  Baker Annex, Room 209/214

 

8:10 – 9:00 am             Environmental   Restoration in the State of Delaware – Mr. John Hughes, Secretary of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, State of Delaware

 

Conference Presentation

 

9:00 – 9:20 am             Monitoring the persistence of chlorpyrifos used in Japanese beetle larvae control in field grown balled and burlapped nursery stock - Dennis, S.O., J. Oliver and P. Nveawiah –Yoho

 

9:20 – 9:50 am             Environmental impact of production practices of small limited resource farmers in Tennessee - Tegegne, F., B. English, E. Ekanem and S. Singh.

 

9:50 – 10:00 am           Break  

 

10:00 – 10:20 am         Assessing local community support for sustainable agricultural production systems - Thomas, T., O. Yeboah, V. Ofori-Boadu and E. Fosu

 

10:20 – 10:50 am         State conservation spending in the U.S.: a political economy analysis - Adelaja, S. and Y.G. Hailu

 

10:50 – 11:10 am         Highway Retention Pond Effects on Water Quality at DSU Outreach and Research Farm in Smyrna, Delaware - Ozbay, G. and C. Cawley

 

11:10 – 11:30 am         Effects of soil nitrogen on nodulation and nitrogen fixation of Frankia - Anoruo, F. C. and D. Lincoln.

 

11:30 – 11:50 am         Water quality assessment of a watershed in Northern Alabama - Jaja, N., T. D. Tsegaye and M. O. Mbila

 

11:50 – 12:10 pm         Performance of cottonwood (Populus deltoides) clones as a woody biomass crop for phytoremediation - Onokpise, O.U. and D. Rockwood

 

12:10 – 12: 30 pm        The effect of tillage and nitrogen management for irrigated red kidney beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) on nitrate leaching losses - Wilson, M., J.F. Moncrief, C.J. Rosen, N. Krause, and B. Montgomery          

 

12:30 pm                      Closing Remarks – Dr. Dyremple Marsh, Dean, College of Agriculture and Related Sciences, Delaware State University