# positions[].organizations[].label
Corpus Christi Research and Extension Center

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
My overall goal is the improvement of economic and environmental sustainability through the use of alternative practices, specifically the integration of legumes or agricultural co-products, into agricultural systems.  Experiments are designed to evaluate alternatives which will improve the resource use efficiency of water, nutrients, and other management inputs while maintaining crop or livestock productivity.  Alternative practices include novel forages or crops, agronomic management, soil amendments, or tillage. Primary focus is on warm-season legumes and their inclusion into warm-season based cropping systems and pastures for crop and livestock production and biofuels in the southern United States.  Co-products, including microalgae, macroalgae, and other bioenergy waste, have great potential as soil amendments and animal feeds which enhance resource use efficiency.  Improvement of sustainability and resource use efficiency are cross-cutting issues which are international in scope.

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

# keywords[]
3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

# keywords[]
30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

# keywords[]
3002 Agriculture, Land And Farm Management

# keywords[]
30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

# educationAndTraining[].organization.label
Tarleton State University - (Stephenville, Texas, United States)

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University of Florida - (Gainesville, Florida, United States)

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

# publications[].label
Effects of Feeding Different Levels of Quebracho (Schinopsis balansae) Extract in a High-Roughage Total Mixed Ration on Manure Gas Emissions.

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Forages and pastures symposium: an update on in vitro and in situ experimental techniques for approximation of ruminal fiber degradation.

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Potential of Ensiling Sorghum without Grain Pretreated with Enzymes or Bacterial Inoculants

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Sampling for biological indicators of soil health: How does sampling methodology affect research results?

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Biomass and nitrogen content of fifteen annual warm-season legumes grown in a semi-arid environment

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Impact of DDGS Supplementation of Cattle Grazing Bermudagrass on the Plant-Animal-Environment Nexus.

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257 Effects of feeding different levels of quebracho (Schinopsis balansae) extract in a high-roughage total mixed ration on seasonal manure gas emissions

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Forage Accumulation, Nutritive Value, and Persistence of 'Mulato II' Brachiariagrass in Northern Florida

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An Update on in Vitro and in Situ Experimental Techniques for Approximation of Ruminal Fiber Degradation

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Inoculants to Enhance the Ruminal Degradation of SmallGrain Forage

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Factors affecting the quality of corn silage grown in hot, humid areas 2: Effect of applying two dual-purpose inoculants or molasses

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Effects of source and level of two legumes or cotton seed meal on intake and digestibility of Coastal Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) hay diets by goats

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Sustainable intensification of cultivated pastures using multiple herbivore species

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Effects of supplementation of dried distillers grains with solubles to beef steers grazing Coastal bermudagrass on performance on pasture and in feedlot, and carcass characteristics

# publications[].publisher
American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists

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Assessing the production and nutritive value of warmseason legumes in Oklahoma and Texas

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Effects of an off-stream watering facility on cattle behavior and instream E. coli levels

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0658 Performance of stocker cattle grazing Tifton 85 bermudagrass supplemented with dried distillers' grains on per-animal and per-area bases: A two-year summary

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Effects of roughage type on particle separation, rumination, fiber mat characteristics, in situ degradation, and ruminal fermentation parameters in beef steers.

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Effects of Row Spacing, Seeding Rate, and Planting Date on Establishment of Switchgrass

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Effects of feeding a beta-agonist on performance, carcass yield, quality, and economic value of cull cows.

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Lipid-Extracted Algae as a Soil Amendment Can Increase Soil Salinization and Reduce Forage Growth

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Evaluation of Aggregate Stability Methods for Soil Health

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In situ Degradation Patterns of 'Tifton 85' Bermudagrass with Dried Distillers' Grains Supplementation

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The effect of staygreen ranking, maturity and moisture concentration of corn hybrids on the performance of dairy cows.

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PSIX-38 Influence of quebracho (Schinopsis balansae) tannin extract fed at differing rates in a high-roughage diet on energy partitioning in beef steers

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Linking soil microbial community structure to potential carbon mineralization: A continental scale assessment of reduced tillage

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An evaluation of carbon indicators of soil health in long-term agricultural experiments

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Evaluation of aggregate stability methods for soil health

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Confirmation of Pearl Millet-Napiergrass Hybrids Using EST-Derived Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) Markers

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Perennial peanut (Arachis glabrata Benth.) contains polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and PPO substrates that can reduce post-harvest proteolysis.

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Carbon sequestration and water management in Texas-One size does not fit all

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An evaluation of nitrogen indicators for soil health in long-term agricultural experiments

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The future of warm-season, tropical and subtropical forage legumes in sustainable pastures and rangelands

# publications[].label
Effect of Differing Rates of Quebracho (Schinopsis balansae) Extract provided in a Limit-Fed High Roughage Total Mixed Ration Upon Digestibility and Nitrogen Balance

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In situ and in vitro degradation of native Texas warm-season legumes and alfalfa in goats and steers fed a sorghum-sudan basal diet

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Nutritive value, fermentation characteristics, and in situ disappearance kinetics of sorghum silage treated with inoculants.

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Registration of Perennial Sorghum bicolor x S. propinquum Line PSH12TX09

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In sacco degradation kinetics of fresh and field-cured peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) forage harvested at different maturities

# publications[].label
Evaluation of growth performance and carcass characteristics of beef stocker cattle grazing Tifton 85 bermudagrass supplemented with dried distillers grains with solubles then finished in the feedlot

# publications[].publisher
American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists

# publications[].label
Comparison of Two Tillage Practices in a Semi-Arid Cotton-Grain Sorghum Rotation

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Intake, digestibility, and nitrogen retention by sheep supplemented with warm-season legume hays or soybean meal.

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Can Nicosulfuron plus Metsulfuron Effectively Control or Suppress King Ranch Bluestem?

# publications[].label
Influence of quebracho (Schinopsis balansae) tannin extract fed at differing rates in a high-roughage diet on energy partitioning in beef steers

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Succinic Acid Production across Candidate Lignocellulosic Biorefinery Feedstocks

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Differences in digestive kinetics and methane production among rhizoma peanut (Arachis glabrata Benth.) cultivars.

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Forage Mass, Nutritive Value, and In situ Degradation of Sorghum Silage Treated with Fibrolytic Enzymes

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YIELD AND MINERAL CONCENTRATIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES OAT CULTIVARS USED FOR FORAGE

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Selecting soil hydraulic properties as indicators of soil health: Measurement response to management and site characteristics

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Safening of Native Grass to Herbicides by Using Carbon Bands

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Nutritive value, fermentation characteristics, and in situ disappearance kinetics of ensiled warm-season legumes and bahiagrass.

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AFST: Influence of quebracho tannin extract fed at differing rates within a high-roughage diet on the apparent digestibility of dry matter and fiber, nitrogen balance, and fecal gas flux

# publications[].label
Effects of feeding different levels of quebracho (Schinopsis balansae) extract in a high-roughage total mixed ration on seasonal manure gas emissions

# publications[].label
419 Effect of Differing Rates of Quebracho (Schinopsis balansae) Extract provided in a Limit-Fed High Roughage Total Mixed Ration Upon Digestibility and Nitrogen Balance.

# publications[].label
Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics as affected by lipid-extracted algae application

# publications[].label
Effects of source and level of two legumes or cotton seed meal on intake and digestibility of Coastal Bermuclagrass (Cynodon dactylon) hay diets by goats

# publications[].label
Performance of Beef Cattle Creep Fed Concentrate or Creep Grazed on Warm-Season Legumes

# publications[].label
Effect of monensin and protein supplementation on in situ degradability of low-quality forage fed to cattle.

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In Situ Degradation Parameters of Three Chronological Maturities of _Tifton 85' Bermudagrass from Cattle Supplemented with Varying Levels of Distillers' Dried Grains.

# publications[].label
Initial aggregate formation and soil carbon storage from lipid-extracted algae amendment

# publications[].publisher
American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

# publications[].label
Annual Legumes for Forage Systems in the United States Gulf Coast Region

# publications[].label
202 An Update on in Vitro and in Situ Experimental Techniques for Approximation of Ruminal Fiber Degradation

# publications[].label
Effects of source and level of two legumes or cotton seed meal on intake and digestibility of Coastal Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon) hay diets by goats

# publications[].label
Registration of Seed Sterile, Perennial Sorghum spp. [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench x S. halepense (L.) Pers.] Hybrid 'PSH09TX15'

# publications[].label
Inclusion of quebracho tannin extract in a high-roughage cattle diet alters digestibility, nitrogen balance, and energy partitioning.

# publications[].label
Factors affecting the quality of corn silage grown in hot, humid areas 2: Effect of applying two dual-purpose inoculants or molasses

# publications[].label
Assessing the Production and Nutritive Value of WarmSeason Legumes in Oklahoma and Texas

# publications[].label
Intake, digestibility, and nitrogen retention by sheep supplemented with warm-season legume haylages or soybean meal.

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Cropping system diversity and tillage intensity affects wheat productivity in Texas

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Effect of quebracho condensed tannin extract on fecal gas flux in steers.

# researcherOn[].label
Enhancing Resource Efficiency by Integrating Legumes and CoProducts Into Modern Agricultural Systems

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# organizations[]
Corpus Christi Research and Extension Center

# schools[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# etdChairOf[].label
Lewis, Katie (2014-08). Soil and Plant Responses to Lipid-Extracted Algae. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Bean, Matthew Ethan (2016-08). Comparison of Two Tillage Practices on a Semi-Arid Rotational Cropping System. Master's Thesis.

# etdChairOf[].label
Thomas, Martha 1980- (2013-01). Application of Fibrolytic Enzymes and Bacterial Inoculants to Sorghum Silage and Small-Grain Hay. Doctoral Dissertation.

# etdChairOf[].label
Noland, Reagan Lee (2014-05). Integrating Cover Crops into Strip-Till Cropping Systems in a Semi-Arid Environment. Master's Thesis.

# websites[].label
Forage Agronomy Texas A&M AgriLife Research-Beeville