Nancy Creamer
Blue Cross and Blue Shield/WK Kellogg Distinguished Professor Emerita
Former Director of Center for Environmental Farming Systems
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Kilgore Hall NA
Area(s) of Expertise:
Former Director of Center for Environmental Farming Systems. Research and extension responsibilities for vegetable crops. Research interests include long-term comparative farming systems trials, organic transition strategies, using winter and summer cover crops in vegetable production systems, determining optimum cover crop mixtures, allelopathic suppression of weeds, and organic vegetable production.
Publications
- Focusing the future of farming on agroecology, AGRICULTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL LETTERS (2020)
- Soil carbon and nitrogen fractions after 19 years of farming systems research in the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL (2020)
- Farmer harvest decisions and vegetable loss in primary production, AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS (2019)
- Governance and innovations in local food system development: A bottom-up approach in North Carolina, JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SYSTEMS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (2019)
- Estimating on-farm food loss at the field level: A methodology and applied case study on a North Carolina farm, RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING (2018)
- Field measurement in vegetable crops indicates need for reevaluation of on-farm food loss estimates in North America, AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS (2018)
- Local sourcing and the military: Lessons learned through a university-based initiative to increase local procurement at a US military base, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2017)
- Effects of cover crops, compost, and vermicompost on strawberry yields and nitrogen availability in North Carolina, HortTechnology (2016)
- A survey of cover crop practices and perceptions of sustainable farmers in North Carolina and the surrounding region, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2015)
- Short-term nitrogen mineralization from warm-season cover crops in organic farming systems, Plant and Soil (2015)
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Education
PhD, Ohio State University (1994)