Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.960202125110.14985C@badger.ac.BrockU.CA> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 12:51:10 -0500 From: Martin Sieg <mailto:ms94dk@BADGER.AC.BROCKU.CA> Subject: Training workshop To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Some of you may be interested in the following workshop, or know someone who would be. We would appreciate your help in spreading the word.Thanks.
TRAINING WORKSHOP ON SUSTAINABLE AGROECOSYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES West Texas A&M University, June 3-21, 1996 The Dryland Agriculture Institute of West Texas A&M University is conducting a training workshop on Sustainable Agroecosystems and Environmental Issues, June 3-21, 1996. The workshop is designed to present information on sustainable agricultural systems and environmental issues, and to visit research facilities and farm fields in the southern and central United States Great Plains. The region is one of the largest dryland agriculture regions of the world, and its development has had both positive and negative impacts on crop production and the environment. Experiences of the region are a valuable resource base for scientists, technology transfer personnel, planners and policy makers for other semiarid regions of the world. Soil degradation was very pronounced during early development of the area and led to very severe wind erosion. Technologies have been developed that have arrested most soil degradation and increased yields. The Great Plains is also a major irrigated region but the water resource is being depleted, particularly in the southern Great Plains. Attention will be given to technologies and practices designed to use limited water supplies in dryland regions. The conjunctive use of limited water supplies and rainfall is extremely important in semiarid regions and a wealth of information and experience has been obtained in the area. The workshop will begin on the campus of West Texas A&M University, in Canyon, Texas, 25 km south of Amarillo. However, approximately two of the three weeks will be spent traveling through the southern and central Great Plains visiting research facilities, farms, and ranches. Participants will travel approximately 5,500 km through portions of five states - Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mex ico.
WORKSHOP DIRECTORS/TOUR ESCORTS Dr. B.A. Stewart is director of the Dryland Agriculture Institute and distinguished professor of soil science at West Texas A&M University. He was formerly director of the USDA Conservation and Production Research Laboratory, Bushland, Texas; past president of the Soil Science Society of America; and a member of the 1990-93 Committee on Long Range Soil and Water Policy, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Clay Robinson is assistant professor of soil and crop sciences, Division of Agriculture, West Texas A&M University. He did his graduate work at Iowa State University and was assistant professor of soil and plant sciences at Eastern New Mexico University prior to joining West Texas A&M University in 1994.
FOR MORE INFORMATION Dryland Agriculture Institute Telephone (806) 656-2299 West Texas A&M University Fax (806) 656-2938 WTAMU Box 278 E-mail: mailto:bstewart@wtamu.edu Canyon, Texas 79016-0001 Clay A. Robinson, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Plant Science West Texas A&M University Canyon, TX 79016-0001 806/656-2553, f656-2938 mailto:car@wtamu.edu "To live is Christ..."