Jerry D. Glover

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the sustainability of organic, conventional and integrated apple production systems in Washington State from 1994 to 1999 and report that the organic system ranked first in environmental and economic sustainability, the integrated system second and the conventional system last.

TL;DR: This article measured POXC across a wide range of soil types, ecosystems, and geographic areas (12 studies, 53 total sites, = 1379) to determine the relationship between POXc and POC, microbial biomass C (MBC), and soil organic C (SOC) fractions, and determine the relative sensitivity as a labile soil C metric across a range of environmental and management conditions.

TL;DR: To ensure food and ecosystem security, farmers need more options to produce grains under different, generally less favorable circumstances than those under which increases in food security were achieved this past century.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an approach to increase food and ecosystem security via Perennial Grains. But their approach is limited to a limited set of crops and does not consider other types of crops.

TL;DR: In this paper, a modified soil quality index was developed to evaluate the effects of conventional, integrated and organic apple production systems on soil physical, chemical, and biological properties using four replicates of each of the three treatments in a randomized complete block design.