Nancy Creamer
Professor Emerita and Former Director Center For Environmental Farming Systems
W.K. Kellogg Endowed Professor
Bio
Area(s) of Expertise:
Former 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.
Education
PhD Ohio State University 1994
Publications
- Eradication of Commelina benghalensis in a long-term experiment using a multistakeholder governance model: a case of regulatory concerns defeating ecological management success , INVASIVE PLANT SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT (2022)
- A collaborative approach to COVID-19 response: The Center for Environmental Farming Systems community-based food system initiatives , JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SYSTEMS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (2021)
- Cultivating community resilience: How North Carolina's food council is facilitating an effective response during COVID-19 , JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE FOOD SYSTEMS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (2021)
- 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)