Meeting Announcement

The Second Farming Systems Design Symposium will be held August 23 to 27, 2009 in Monterey, CA. This meeting is a joint international effort co-sponsored by the American Society of Agronomy, European Society of Agronomy, Australian Society of Agronomy, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, and the International Environmental Modeling and Software Society. The first meeting was held in September 2007 in Catania, Sicily. This meeting will continue the strong international interest to design and evaluate farming systems that can be implemented to increase food security, decrease environmental impacts, respond to climatic change, and provide management alternatives for enhancing natural resources. The goal of the symposium series is to conduct biennial meetings throughout the world to share ideas, experiences, and information on farming system design. This meeting will assemble the leading scientists throughout the world to discuss these topics, share their ideas and results, and prepare papers that will be published as special collections in the world’s leading scientific journals. This meeting welcomes interested scientists and professionals throughout the world to participate in this ongoing effort to understand farming systems design.

Information

Details on the Farming Systems Design 2009 are available at www.iemss.org/farmsys09

Detailed questions can be posted to this website under the information tab.

Further questions can be posted directly to Jerry Hatfield at jerry.hatfield@ars.usda.gov