AGROFORESTRY AT THE 1890 LAND GRANT UNIVERSITIES

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AGROFORESTRYAT THE 1890 LAND GRANT UNIVERSITIES

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Photos Courtesy of NAC and UMC-Agroforesrty
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Why Agroforestry? National Agroforestry Center
Working Trees

• Agroforestry systems provide cost-effective
  ways to diversify farm and ranch production to
  increase income, while simultaneously providing
  key ecosystem services that reduce water
  pollution, improve air quality, and prevent soil
  erosion.
• Agroforestry plantings sequester carbon as they
  grow and when tallied across our nations vast
  agricultural landscape they can significantly
  help to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
• Agroforestry can help connect rural and urban
  efforts to maintain green infrastructure in our
  increasingly fragmented landscapes and, thereby,
  provide critical wildlife habitat and integrate
  the management of rural and urban stormwater
  runoff in a watershed.

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• Land Grant Institutions

• Have targeted their Research and Extension
  programs quite well to reach non-traditional
  audiences.
• Have targeted the hard-to reach,
  non-traditional, limited-resource farmers,
  woodland owners and families.

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• 1890 Land Grand Universities

• Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical
• Alcorn State University
• University Arkansas in Pine Buff
• Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
• Fort Valley State University (Georgia)
• South Carolina State University
• Tennessee State University
• Virginia State University
• West Virginia State University

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• 1890 Land Grand Universities (cont..)

• Lincoln University (Missouri)
• Langston University (Oklahoma)
• Delaware State University
• North Carolina Agriculture and Technical Univ.
• Tuskegee University
• Prairie View AM University (Texas)
• Southern University (Louisiana)
• Kentucky State University
• University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd Dr. Kome Onokpise Dr.
Rory Fraser Dr. Fulbert NamwambaDr. Joshua
Idassi Dr. Rao MentreddyDr. George Brown
Dr. Greg RuarkDr. Jill Auburn Dr.
Catalino BlancheDr. Dyremple Marsh Mr. Bruce
WightMr. Richard Straight

• Leadership Steering Committee

Partners and collaborators (State and Federal)
USDA - CSREES NRCS
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• Leadership Steering Committee

Gwen
Fulbert
Jill
Greg
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• History

• At the 1st World Congress of Agroforestry
• - June 27 to July 2, 2004 at Orlando, FL
• - Pre-conference Planning Meeting
• National Agroforestry Center Director
• - Locating to the campus of AL AM
• - To build an agroforestry momentum in SE
• - Continue expand efforts among the 1890 LGUs
  and 1890 Agroforestry Consortium

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• Specific Deliverables

• Successful development of the following
• Vision and Mission Statements
• Marketing Plan
• Communication Plan
• By-Laws
• Calendar of events and a Legacy Corner
• Website for the Consortium currently at
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Vision and Mission

• To build a team of 1890 Land Grant Professionals
  that will provide leadership in agroforestry
  research, education and extension throughout the
  1890 land Grant System
• To assist a growing number of limited resource
  and underserved landowners in the South and
  elsewhere who are seeking a wider choice of
  sustainable, economically feasible land
  management alternatives

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Sample of Deliverables

• COMMUNICATIONS PLAN
• OBJECTIVES
• 1. To develop, produce, package and
  disseminate information materials related to the
  activities of the 1890 Agroforestry Consortium
• 2. Maintain an effective internal
  communications mechanism
• 3. Market the vision and mission of the
  consortium
• 4. Strengthen and expand the communication
  plan of the consortium through strategic
  alliances with partners

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Consortium By-Laws

• ARTICLE I. NAME, OFFICES AND OBJECTIVES
• Section 1. NAME--The name of this organization
  shall be the 1890 Agroforestry Consortium,
  hereinafter referred to as the Consortium.
• Section 2. OFFICESThe Consortium shall at all
  times maintain a registered office in the State
  of Alabama and a registered agent at that address
  but may have other offices located within or
  without the State of Alabama as the Executive
  Committee may determine.
• Section 3. PURPOSE-- The Consortium is formed to
  develop and advance agroforestry research,
  teaching and extension activities among the 1890
  Land-grant universities and Tuskegee University
  using multi-disciplinary teams of faculty, staff
  and students working in partnership with
  government agencies and other entities.
• Section 4. STATUSThe Consortium intends to
  become a Non-Profit Corporation as specified in
  U.S. Code Title 26, Subtitle A , Chapter 1,
  Subchapter F, Part 1, Section 501, Subsection
  (c)(3).
• ARTICLE II. MEMBERSHIP AND STATUS
• Section 1. MEMBERSHIP ELIGIBILITY-- Membership
  shall be open to all persons and organizations
  that share a commitment to the development and
  enhancement of agroforestry activities among the
  1890 Land-grant universities and Tuskegee
  University, and who can bring valuable resources
  to the Consortium in support of its Purpose,
  Goals and Objectives hereinafter referred to as
  the PGOs.
• Section 2. BECOMING A MEMBER OF THE CONSORTIUM--
  An individual or group may become a member of the
  Consortium by1. Being nominated and endorsed by
  a current member of the Consortium at a regularly
  scheduled business meeting and by completing a
  membership application certifying that the
  applicant would support the PGOs of the
  Consortium 2. Agreeing to provide a minimum
  annual membership contribution (dues) in an
  amount determined by the Consortiums Advisory
  Board3. And, if joining after the first year of
  incorporation, by agreeing to pay an additional
  one-time joining fee in an amount determined by
  the Consortiums Advisory Board
• Section 3. STATUS-- All members shall be
  considered in good standing as long as they
  remain committed to the PGOs of the Consortium
  and maintain their annual membership
  contribution. Any member may discontinue
  Consortium membership by so advising the
  Consortium Executive Committee in writing. No
  portion of an annual membership contribution made
  by a departing member will be refunded.

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Tour the 1890 Research, Teaching and Extension
Activities

• Alabama AM
• Silvopasture applied research at Apes, AL
• Agroforestry curriculum for Undergraduate and
  Graduate
• Landownership workshops for underserved and
  limited resources audience in the South
• Five successful Agroforestry Consortium
  Workshops using the major Agroforestry Practices
  curricula from USDA-NAC and NRCS in Huntsville,
  AL

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Tour the 1890 Research, Teaching and Extension
Activities
Florida AM

• Silvopasture applied research at Quincy, FL
• Agroforestry curriculum for Undergraduate
• Various collaborative outreach initiatives with
  USDA-NRCS
• Diverse groups in most workshops

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Tour the 1890 Research, Teaching and Extension
Activities

• Southern University
• Green Infrastructure applied research
• Agroforestry curriculum for Graduate students
• GIS workshops for different audiences involved in
  Green Infrastructure and Storm Water Control
  Initiatives

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Tour the 1890 Research, Teaching and Extension
Activities

• Tennessee State University
• Applied research in Agroforestry
• Demonstration plots in Eastern Black Walnuts
• Assessing the growing potentials of various
  Christmas tree species in Tennessee
• On farm demonstration in Forest farming Shiitake
  mushroom and golden seal production
• Various in-service workshops targeting County
  Extension agents and Area Foresters

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Tour the 1890 Research, Teaching and Extension
Activities

• Small Ruminants Applied Research and Outreach
  Programs
• Langston University, OK
• Kentucky State University
• Florida AM
• Tennessee State University
• Tuskegee University
• Alabama AM and etc.

Apes, AL - Goats
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Goat/Tree Project

• Provide underserved and small forestland owners
  with an opportunity to diversify their on-farm
  income.
• Provide small forestland owners with a regular
  short-term type of income.
• Determine if silvopasturing goats in forested
  areas constitute a viable land management
  alternative for small landowners.

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Goat/Tree Project

• Provide technical assistance through seminars,
  workshops, trainings, and demonstration.
• Provide financial assistance for starting a
  silvopasture business.
• Provide marketing assistance through our
  cooperative development program.

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Site Preparation
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Silvopasture Fencing Training
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Silvopasture Demonstrations
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Silvopasture Trainings Demonstrations
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Success Stories

• Timbertop Farm Ashland City, TN
• SARE Grant FSO6 200 recipient of 10,000.00
• Examined the problem of fungi infection to
  shiitake mushroom logs in their indoor facility
• Inoculated logs shiitake mushroom logs were
  infected by a fungus Trichoderma (very
  destructive)

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Successful Stories
Trichoderma

• Trichoderma first appeared on the sealing wax
  of the drilled inoculated holes
• A green looking mold, form a white ring, rot
  in the drilled holes, bark begin to crack or fall
  off, thus destroying the shiitake mycelium.
• The destroyed bark would make way for other
  fungi to infect and feed on the log. The end
  result is a log that does not produce or is short
  lived in producing the shiitake mushroom.

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Timbertop Farm Tips

• Must identify the infection, study the life
  parameters
• Separate the non-infected logs and make
  adjustments
• Infection problem appear within the first six
  months of inoculation
• Failure to do so will result in loss of the
  shiitake log
• Timbertop Farm logs showing signs of
  infections within the first three months after
  inoculation

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Calendar of Events (Workshops and Conferences)

• April 8-9, 2008 Logic Model and Multistate
  Agroforestry Projects
• Washington DC, USDA-CSREES (Dr. Catalino)
• May 1-3, 2008 Medicinal Plants and Mushroom
  Birmingham, AL
• Contact Dr. Rao Mentreddy AL AM
• August 2009 2nd World Agroforestry
  Congress, Nairobi, Kenya

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