USDA Long-term Agroecosystem Research Network (LTAR)

The LTAR Network is composed of 18 sites across the United States, forming a nationwide network designed to assess strategies for sustainable intensification of agriculture at the national scale.

Climate change on the ranch

Our work seeks to understand how alternative grazing and land management strategies affect the resilience of grasslands to altered precipitation regimes.

Cows to the rescue

Assess cattle grazing as alternative management of West Indian marsh grass.

Harvesting nutrients

Assessing feasibility of pumping nutrient-rich water from C-41 canal to irrigate forage grasses in an abandoned citrus grove and track nutrient removal via harvested forage.

Nutrient Network: A Global Research Cooperative

Investigating the role of grazers or fertilization in controlling plant biomass, diversity, and composition

Disturbance and Resources Across Global Grasslands

Assess vegetation recovery from disturbance across grasslands worldwide

Ranch Water Services

Archbold monitors and reports on water management alternatives on 16 ranches and 3 protected public land projects.

Ranch Wetland Experiment

Understanding how management decisions affect wetland conservation value and wetland functions that benefit society.

Ranch Wetland Restoration

Assessing the success of wetland restoration at Buck Island Ranch and the Reserve.

Seeding for Soil Health

We evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of overseeding cover crops into ranchlands to improve soil health and water quality.

Sugarcane for bioenergy

This is a 10 year-long investigation into the sustainability of sugarcane cultivation when compared to improved pastures measured by biogeochemical cycling, water use and quality.

Carbon and Cows

Are grazing lands a source or sink for carbon?