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- All-Age Management, Demonstration WoodlotDowning, Adam K.; Huppuch, Charlie (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2019-09-12)Provides information about a demonstration forest, and how it is managed for timber production, wildlife and other concerns.
- All-Age Management, Demonstration WoodlotDowning, Adam K.; Huppuch, Charlie (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2015-02-23)Provides information about a demonstration forest, and how it is managed for timber production, wildlife, and other concerns.
- BCAP Biomass Crop Assistance Program : fact sheet for loggersDowning, Adam K. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2010-01-08)This publication describes the Biomass Crop Assistance Program and explains how it can benefit loggers.
- Creating silvopastures – Some considerations when planting trees into pasturesFike, John H.; Downing, Adam K.; Munsell, John F.; Frey, Gregory E.; Mercier, Kelly; Pent, Gabriel J.; Teutsch, Christopher D.; Daniel, J. B.; Fisher, K. Jason; Adams, Miller; Groh, Todd (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2017)Silvopastures — integrated tree-forage-livestock production systems — have the potential to boost farm resource use and income. These systems take advantage of the beneficial interactions among system components, add biodiversity, and increase animal comfort. The intentional and careful combining of trees and livestock in time and space can yield both short-and long-term returns and have positive environmental outcomes. In well-managed silvopasture systems, trees can reduce livestock stress by protecting them from inclement weather or by reducing ambient temperatures and radiation. They can provide marketable timber and nontimber products and improve environmental quality by reducing water runoff and capturing nutrients and by reducing animal use of surface waters.
- Creating Silvopastures: Some Considerations When Thinning Existing Timber StandsFike, John H.; Downing, Adam K.; Munsell, John F.; Daniel, J. B.; Teutsch, Christopher D.; Mercier, Kelly; Pent, Gabriel J. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2016-09-30)Discusses the concept of silvopastures, the inclusion of trees with forage and livestock production in a rotational grazing system. This system can improve forage production, animal comfort, increase farm resource use efficiency, increase farm income, and reduce environmental costs. This system is also more sustainable.
- Defining Silvopastures: Integrating Tree Production With Forage-Livestock Systems for Economic, Environmental, and Aesthetic OutcomesFike, John H.; Downing, Adam K.; Munsell, John F. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2016-05-23)Introduces the concept of "silvopasture", and notes the advantages of this means of land management, including improvements in environment, monies, and aesthetics.
- Effect of silvopasture system on fearfulness and leg health in fast-growing broiler chickensPaneru, Bidur; Pent, Gabriel J.; Nastasi, Shawna; Downing, Adam K.; Munsell, John F.; Fike, John H.; Jacobs, Leonie (2023-02)A silvopasture system intentionally integrates trees, forages, and livestock, allowing dual land use. These systems can provide high-quality habitat for broiler chickens; however, such systems have not been widely adopted by the broiler industry in the United States. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of silvopasture versus open pasture access on fearfulness and leg health in fast-growing broiler chickens. A total of 886 mixed-sex Ross 708 chicks in Experiment 1 (Exp 1) and 648 chicks in Experiment 2 (Exp 2) were housed in coops and had access to 16 (Exp 1) or 12 (Exp 2) 125m2 silvopasture plots (x̄ = 32% canopy cover) or open pasture plots (no canopy cover) from day 24 of age. Fearfulness was measured using a tonic immobility test (tonic immobility duration), and leg health was assessed by quantifying footpad dermatitis, hock burns, gait, and performing a latency-to-lie test on days 37-39 of age. Birds in the silvopasture treatment were less fearful than birds in the open pasture treatment. Overall, birds in both silvopasture and open pasture systems had excellent leg health. Silvopasture birds had lower footpad dermatitis scores than open pasture birds. Silvopasture birds tended to have worse gait than open pasture birds in Exp 1, but not in Exp 2. Hock burn scores and latency-to-lie did not differ between treatments in Exp 1 or Exp 2. Raising birds in silvopasture reduced fear and improved footpad health compared to birds raised in open pastures, which indicates that silvopasture systems provide some benefits for affective state and leg health in fast-growing broilers.
- Emerald Ash BorerDowning, Adam K. (2017-08-02)The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is a non-native insect. The accidental introduction of EAB to North America is believed to have arrived by way of shipping material, such as pallets, made from infested ash from China. Since its discovery in 2002 in North America, it has been confirmed in parts or all of 29 states and 2 Canadian provinces. EAB was first established in SE Michigan, in the early 1990’s. Initial ash damage was mistaken for Ash Yellows for a decade.
- Establishing and protecting trees in pasturesPent, Gabriel J.; Downing, Adam K.; Fike, John H. (The Virginia Forage and Grassland Council, 2019-03)Also includes information about the 2019 Virginia Forage and Grassland Council Winter Forage Conferences, position announcement for an Applied Forage Systems Specialist, and Fescue Field Day 2018.
- Expanding Business Opportunities for the Green Industry in Backyard WoodlotsDowning, Adam K. (Landscape Contractors Association MD DC VA, 2020-06)
- Generation NEXT: Better than the AlternativeDowning, Adam K.; Santucci, Mike (National Woodland Owners Association, 2020-01-30)
- Legacy Planning - A Guide For Virginia LandownersGagnon, Jennifer L.; Downing, Adam K.; Santucci, Mike; Mountain, Travis (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2021-01-11)Most woodland owners want their land to stay intact, in forest, and in family, even after they pass. Unfortunately, land is most vulnerable to subdivision, land use change, and being sold out of the family when it passes from one generation to the next. This is often a result of poor (or no) planning. Fortunately, with proper planning and communication, these unwanted changes can be avoided. This guide leads families through a 9-step process to help ensure everyone's wishes for the land are met.
- Legacy Planning - A Guide For Virginia LandownersGagnon, Jennifer L.; Downing, Adam K.; Santucci, Mike; Mountain, Travis P. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2020-11-11)Most woodland owners want their land to stay intact, in forest, and in family, even after they pass. Unfortunately, land is most vulnerable to subdivision, land use change, and being sold out of the family when it passes from one generation to the next. This is often a result of poor (or no) planning. Fortunately, with proper planning and communication, these unwanted changes can be avoided. This guide leads families through a 9-step process to help ensure everyone's wishes for the land are met.
- Living well. Volume 9, Issue 1 : a newsletter of Family and Consumer SciencesDeBord, Karen; Downing, Adam K.; Lomax-Brown, Twandra; Sturm, Glenn (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2013-08-08)This issue includes articles on keeping your spending in check, raising responsible children, greening your home on a tight budget, and home weatherization tips for warmer weather.
- Options for Clearing Land: Pasture EstablishmentPoor, C. A. Shea; Childs, Corey; Downing, Adam K. (2022-03-02)This extension publication covers methods for clearing land and for establishing pasture.
- Options for Clearing Land: Pasture Establishment for HorsesPorr, C. A. Shea; Childs, Corey; Downing, Adam K. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2009)Provides some practical considerations of land clearing including effective methods, costs, and environmental factors. Discusses trees that should be avoided in horse pastures.
- Silvopasture From a Forester's PerspectiveDowning, Adam K. (USDA National Agroforestry Center, 2016)
- Silvopastures: SVAREC update, Kentland results, and SPAREC studiesPent, Gabriel J.; Fike, John H.; Downing, Adam K. (2017-08-02)Silvopasture is the purposeful and managed integration of trees, forages, and livestock. With appropriate management, these intensive, integrated management systems create beneficial interactions among the system components that result in more efficient resource use and greater economic output over the life of the system. Benefits of silvopastures can include increased forage yield or quality, reduced animal stress, improved tree growth and quality, greater farm product and ecosystem diversity and a number of conservation gains (Fike et al. 2004)
- So You Want To Sell TimberDowning, Adam K.; Gagnon, Jennifer L. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2015-09-23)Discusses factors and conditions relating to the sale of timber that should be always be considered, including why selling occurs, when to sell, and how to sell.
- So You Want To Sell TimberDowning, Adam K.; Gagnon, Jennifer L. (Virginia Cooperative Extension, 2018-12-18)Discusses factors and conditions related to the sale of timber that should be considered, including why selling occurs, when to sell, and how to sell.
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