Education

A core leg of the Exchange: curated partner teaching on covers, bringing livestock back, managed grazing, silvopasture, and shrinking diesel and fertilizer. We summarize and credit; the full piece lives on the author's site.

50 resources from OSU, Penn State, Kentucky, WVU, SARE, OEFFA, and Stratford — lined up with FarmTec / Stinner fossil-fuel themes.

Theme

All themes Cover crops & forage Integrating livestock Cutting fossil-fuel inputs Managed grazing Equipment & on-farm energy Silvopasture

Less diesel, fertilizer N, and mechanical harvest through grazing, no-till, and input efficiency.

Source

All partners OSU Extension (14)Penn State Ext. (13)UK Extension (5)WVU Extension (4)SARE (4)OEFFA (6)Stratford (4)

Cutting fossil-fuel inputs · OSU Extension

4 resources

Do Cover Crops Grown for Feed Need Fertilizer?
Ohio BEEF Cattle Letter · OSU Extension · December 2019
Authors: Christine Gelley
Argues strip-grazing covers beats mechanical harvest for nutrient return and machinery cost, and when soil tests plus livestock redeposit mean fertilizer can stay off.
Cover crops & forageIntegrating livestockCutting fossil-fuel inputs
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Stockpiling Cool-Season Grasses with Fall Nitrogen
Ohioline · Ohio State University Extension · June 2025
Authors: Ted Wiseman and Dan Lima
Tall fescue stockpile for late fall and winter: when to shut the gate, N timing/rate, clover dilutions, and strip-grazing a three-day allocation to roughly double grazing days vs. continuous access.
Managed grazingCutting fossil-fuel inputs
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IDEAS Crop and Livestock Integration Project
Agroecosystem Management Program · The Ohio State University
Authors: Doug Jackson-Smith, Marilia Chiavegato, Ryan Haden, Steve Lyon, Ajay Shah, and Cassandra Brown
On-farm study across eight Ohio counties comparing modes of crop–livestock integration; perennials and manure stood out for soil biological health. Team is building Extension recommendations from the work.
Integrating livestockCover crops & forageCutting fossil-fuel inputs
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A more efficient harvest (hybrid tractor research)
The Ohio State University · Center for Automotive Research · January 2026
Authors: Center for Automotive Research and Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
OSU automotive / FABE work on hybrid off-road tractors — full battery packs still struggle at high horsepower; hybrids cut fuel use up to about 21% in tested duty cycles.
Equipment & on-farm energyCutting fossil-fuel inputs
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Attribution

Every card names the authors and publisher and links to their post, PDF, or project page. Summaries are written for the Exchange; they are not reprints.