Due to over-exploitation of natural resources, exposure to production risk, and fall in biodiversity environment degradation, the sustainability of agriculture production system appears to be under threat.
In recent years precision agriculture and conservation agriculture have assumed greater importance, to meet such challenges and ensure long-term sustainability of the production system.

Organic producers are interested in developing a no-till system for crop production. In this study, we examined management tactics to convert perennial legumes to annual crops without tillage. Our hypothesis was that reducing carbohydrate production in the fall by mowing would favor winterkill.

Perennial grasses are excellent candidates for bioenergy feedstock production, especially long-lived grasses with broad adaptation, such as reed canarygrass. However, 40 years of breeding reed canarygrass for use in pastures has resulted in cultivars with severely modified alkaloid profiles, making them acceptable to livestock but less acceptable for bioenergy.

Bioenergy-based cropping systems are on the rise, with the goal of producing 136 billion liters of ethanol per year by 2022. This means that more and more producers with subsurface-drained (tile-drained) lands in the U.S. Midwest are shifting some of their land to meet the bio-energy industry’s needs.
In these landscapes, subsurface drainage waters are the primary pathway for transport of nitrate and phosphorus from agricultural fields to surface water bodies. Therefore, infield and edge-of-field practices to minimize nitrogen and phosphorus losses have seen extensive research.

Rapid changes in agricultural systems call for profound changes in agricultural research and extension practices. The Diagnosis, Design, Assessment, Training and Extension (DATE) approach was developed and applied to co-design Conservation Agriculture-based cropping systems in contrasted situations. DATE is a multi-scale, multi-stakeholder participatory approach that integrates scientific and local knowledge.

List of Sustainable Agriculture Research Journals:

- Acta Horticulturae
- Aspects of Applied Biology
- Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
- Journal of Sustainable Agriculture
- HortTechnology