A selection of relevant journal articles, books, and other documents can be found in the links below. Websites of organizations in the Green Lands Blue Waters consortium can be found linked on the Consortium page, and these websites contain a wealth of other information.
2011
Reducing Agriculture’s Nitrogen Footprint: Are New Policy Approaches Needed? Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-ERS). September, 2011. Report
River Life. Initiative of the Institute on the Environment (I on E) at the University of Minnesota. News, photography, mapping, research, and curriculum related to the Mississippi River. Website
Committee on Clean Water Act Implementation Across the Mississippi River Basin; National Research Council. 2011. Improving water quality in the Mississippi River basin and northern Gulf of Mexico: strategies and priorities. National Academy of Sciences. 46 p. Publication
Shepard L. and P. Westmoreland. This Perennial Land: third crops, blue earth, and the road to a restorative agriculture. Minneapolis, MN: Perennial Lands. 2011. Print. Website for book
Reganold, J.P., D. Jackson-Smith, S.S. Batie, R.R. Harwood, J.L. Kornegay, D. Bucks, C.B. Flora, J.C. Hanson, W.A. Jury, D. Meyer, A. Schumacher Jr., H. Sehmsdorf, C. Shennan, L.A. Thrupp, P. Willis. Transforming U.S. Agriculture. Science. 322.6030:670-671. Print.
2010
Atwell, R.C., L.A. Schulte, and M.L. Westphal. 2010. Linking resilience theory and diffusion of innovations theory to understand the potential for perennials in the U.S. Corn Belt. Ecology and Society (14)1:30. Web. Article
Dale, V. H., R. Lowrance, P. Mulholland, and G. Phillip Robertson. 2010. Bioenergy sustainability at the regional scale. Ecology and Society 15(4):23. Web. Article
Glover J.D, J. P. Reganold, L.W. Bell, J. Borevitz, E.C. Brummer, E.S. Buckler, C,M. Cox, T. S. Cox, T.E. Crews, S.W. Culman, L.R. DeHaan, D. Eriksson, B.S. Gill, J. Holland, F. Hu, B.S. Hulke, A.M.H. Ibrahim, W. Jackson, S.S. Jones, S.C. Murray, A.H. Paterson, E. Ploschuk, E.J. Sacks, S. Snapp, D. Tao, D.L. Van Tassel, L.J. Wade, D.L. Wyse, and Y. Xu. 2010. Increased food and ecosystem security via perennial grains. Science 328.5986: 1638-1639. Web. Article
Glover, J. D. 2010. Harvested perennial grasslands: Ecological models for farming's perennial future. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 37: 1-2. Article
Glover J.D. and J.P. Reganold. 2010. Perennial grains: food security for the future. Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 2010:41-47.
Jackson, Wes. 2010. Consulting the Genius of the Place - An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture. Berkeley,CA:Counterpoint Press. 272 p.
Jordan, N. and K.D. Warner. 2010. Enhancing the multifunctionality of U.S. agriculture. Bioscience 60(1):60-66. Article
Van Tassel, D.L., L.R. DeHaan, and T.S. Cox. 2010. Missing domestic plant forms: can artificial selection fill the gap? Evolutionary Applications 3:434-452. Article
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Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota. 2009. Biofuels Feasibility Study for East Central Minnesota. Report
Broussard, W. and R.E. Turner. 2009. A Century of Changing Land-Use and Water-Quality Relationships in the Continental US. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7(6):302-307.
Wedin, Walter F. and S.L. Fales, eds. 2009. Grassland: Quietness and Strength for a New American Agriculture. Madison (WI). ASA-CSSA-SSSA. Book web page
2008
Meschke, L., J. Jensen, G. Kaste, B. Olsen, C. Fernholz, C.C. Sheaffer, P. Porter, N.J. Ehlke, D. Wyse, G. Johnson, D. Current. 2008. Investing in Third Crops for the State of Minnesota. Senate Agriculture and Veterans Committee, February 28, 2008. Report (PDF, 802 kb)
2007
Committee on the Mississippi River and the Clean Water Act, National Research Council. 2007. Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. Washington, D.C.:The National Academy of Sciences. 252 p. Book web page
Economic Research Service and Office of the Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Agriculture. May 2007. An Analysis of the Effects of an Expansion in Biofuel Demand on U.S. Agriculture. Report (PDF, 413 kb).
John, S. and A. Watson. August 2007. Establishing a Grass Energy Crop Market in the Decatur Area. Report of the Agricultural Watershed Institute. Report (PDF, 3.26 Mb).
Jordan, N., G. Boody, W. Broussard, J.D. Glover, D. Keeney, B.H. McCown, G. McIsaac, M. Muller, H. Murray, J. Neal, C. Pansing, R.E. Turner, K. Warner, D. Wyse. Sustainable Development of the Agricultural Bio-Economy. June 2007. Science Vol. 316. no. 5831, pp. 1570 - 1571. Article
Rabalais, N. and R.E. Turner. July 2007. 2007 Mapping of Hypoxic Zone, Northern Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Report (PDF, 332 kb).
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