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 …

Crop and livestock production have become spatially decoupled in existing commercial
agricultural regimes throughout the world. These segregated high input production systems …

Although integrated crop–livestock systems have been employed globally for millennia, in
the past century, farmers in North America have tended toward increased specialization …

Groundwater provides a reliable tap to sustain agricultural production, yet persistent aquifer
depletion threatens future sustainability. The High Plains Aquifer supplies 30% of the …

Liming is widely used to decrease soil acidity, and the application of lime alone or in
combination with other amendments, such as gypsum, is a viable agricultural practice to …

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

Given the pressures on land to produce ever more food, doing it 'sustainably'is growing in
importance. However,'sustainable agriculture'is complex to define, not least because …

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

Integrated crop–livestock systems directly link crop and livestock production together to
generate positive economic and environmental outcomes. Some methods used in integrated …