Nancy Creamer
Professor and Director Center For Environmental Farming Systems
W.K. Kellogg Endowed Professor
Extension, Faculty, Research
Kilgore Hall 224
Area(s) of Expertise:
Director, 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
- 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)
- Food Webs and Food Sovereignty: Research Agenda for Sustainability, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (2013)
- Educator and Institutional Entrepreneur: Cooperative Extension and the Building of Localized Food Systems, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (2012)
- Local Food Systems for a Healthy Population, North Carolina Medical Journal (2012)
- Overview and comparison of conservation tillage practices and organic farming in Europe and North America, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2012)
- Influence of field margin type on weed species richness and abundance in conventional crop fields, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (2011)
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Education
PhD, Ohio State University (1994)