Paul Mueller
Professor of Crop Science and CALS Sustainable Agriculture Coordinator
CROP SCIENCE
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Campus Box 7620
Raleigh, NC 27695-7620
paul_mueller@ncsu.edu
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Paul MuellerProfessor of Crop Science and CALS Sustainable Agriculture Coordinator |
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Dr. Mueller has many years experience in agricultural extension, research, and teaching programs at North Carolina State University. He is the College of Agriculture and Life Science Coordinator for Sustainable Agriculture. and Coordinator for the Farming Systems Research Unit of The Center for Environmental Farming Systems. He has been involved with applied grassland farming research with ruminant animals including caprine silvo-pastoral systems and agricultural systems that integrate crops and livestock. Training, technology transfer and educational programs are designed for advisors, farmers and agribusiness personnel interested in sustainable agriculture principles and practices and those striving to improve pasture and grassland management.
Dr. Mueller has been involved with graduate and under graduate teaching. For eight years he team taught FOR 577/SSC 577 (NCSU); ENV 277 (Duke); ECO 199 (UNC):Conservation and Sustainable Development I (3 credit hours), a graduate level course offered jointly by Duke, NCSU and UNC providing an interdisciplinary perspective on interrelationships between agriculture, conservation of natural resources and environmental systems and the economic development process. With Dr. Mike Linker, he developed CS 495C, Agroecology, a 3 credit course designed for the study of Agroecosystems. This course has now evolved into a crop science minor lead by Dr. Michelle Schroeder. In 2004 Dr. Mueller designed and taught a new graduate course CS 620/820, Topics in Sustainable Agriculture. This course is now being offered every other year. Dr. Mueller is also a member of the teaching faculty for The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) summer internship program.
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/sustainable_ag/
Together with Dr. John O’Sullivan of NC A&T State University, Dr. Mueller has developed, submitted, and had approved a Model State Program for North Carolina supported by the Southern Regional Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE). A strategic plan has been developed by the North Carolina team of the two land grant universities, NGOs, NCDA & NRCS and interested farmers. Training is being institutionalized by making sustainable agriculture in-service training available for all NCCES AG agents. Key objectives are to: make available specific, in-depth training options for NCCES agents from all counties; use interdisciplinary, multi-institutional training teams; develop research and training competitive grant proposal for submission to southern SARE and PDP programs and establish evaluation plans that will provide assessment to what extent objectives have been satisfied.
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) in Goldsboro, North Carolina, is dedicated to developing farming systems that are environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable. Long-term interdisciplinary research has been initiated to develop profitable agricultural systems that protect our environment and enhance our rural communities. The Center’s location, in the Neuse River Basin, provides an excellent opportunity to evaluate the impact of diverse cropping systems on water quality. The soil and environment at CEFS are typical of farms bordering other major coastal plain river systems in the state. A major research goal is to identify productive, profitable, farming practices and systems that will benefit water quality, reduce soil erosion, improve soil quality, enhance wildlife populations and help support rural communities.
Silvo-pastoral studies with the meat goats are focusing on tree species with potential to supply nutrition from browse. Work in Costa Rica has focused on the establishment of native timber species in association with dairy cattle pastures. Similar studies are being conceptualized for The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS).
Dr. Mueller has been a key faculty instructor for North Carolina Grazing Schools coordinated by Drs. Jim Green (Crop Science) and Matt Poore (Animal Science). The school format is a mixture of classroom instruction and hands-on field activities. Each school is limited to 30 students. Producers are encouraged to bring aerial maps of their farms, and any ideas they want to share with the other participants. Students are given a notebook with worksheets, lesson plans, and reference materials. These workshops have been approved for continuing education credits for the animal waste applicators training program.
Since 1985 Dr. Mueller has been consistently involved in international projects and programs. He has collaborated on projects with scientists in New Zealand where he studied grassland ecology and intensive grazing management. He has also worked on collaborative projects in Latin America (Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Colombia and Mexico) and in 2001 he spent four months with the Land and Water Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome on special assignment. During this time he traveled to Africa and Central America and developed three international case studies in sustainable agriculture for use in university courses.
Shujiang Kang – Postdoctoral associate
Addlestone, B.J., J.P. Mueller* and J-M. Luginbuhl . 1999. The establishment and early growth characteristics of three leguminous tree species for use in silvopastoral systems of the Southeastern USA. Agro. For. Sys. 44:253-265.
Susko*, D., J.P. Mueller and J. F. Spears. 1999. Influence of environmental factors on germination and emergence of kudzu (Pueraria lobata). Weed Sci. 47: 585-588.
Minarovic*, R.E. and J.P. Mueller. 1999. North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service Professionals: Attitudes Toward Sustainable Agriculture. J. of Extension. : 38 (1).
Mueller*, J. P ., M. H. Poore and W. A. Skroch. 1999. Damage assessment in Christmas tree plantations following vegetation control with sheep and geese. 23: 11-15. Southern Journal. of Applied Forestry.
Mueller*, J. P , T. Hall, J. F. Spears and B. Penny. 2000. Winter No-till Planting of Eastern Gamagrass. Agron. J. 92: 1086-1095.
Susko*, D.J., J.P. Mueller and J. F. Spears. 2001. An evaluation of methods for breaking seed dormancy in kudzu (Pueraria lobata). Can. J. Bot. 79: 197-203.
Mueller*, J. P ., J-M. Luginbuhl and B. A. Bergmann. 2002. Establishment and early growth characteristics of Paulownia spp. for goats. Agroforestry Systems 52: 63-72.
Moulaert-Quiros, A., J.P. Mueller*, M. Villarreal, R. Piedra, L. Villalobos. 2002. A silvo-pastoral system in the north Atlantis zone of Costa Rica: Combining indigenous timber species with dairy pasture swards. Agroforestry Systems (in press).
Mueller*, J. P , Barbercheck, M.E., M. Bell, C. Brownie, N.G. Creamer, S. Hu, L. King, H.M. Linker , F.J. Louws, M. Marra, C.W. Raczkowski, D.J. Susko M.G. Wagger. 2002. Development and implementation of a long-term agricultural systems study: challenges and opportunities. HortTech. 12:362-368.
Zhang* W.J., W.Y. Rui, C. Tu, H.G. Diab, F.J. Louws, J.P. Mueller, N. Creamer, M. Bell, M.G. Wagger, S. Hu. 2005. Responses of soil microbial community structure and diversity to agricultural deintensification. Pedosphere 15, 440-447.
Casteel*, M. J., M D. Sobsey, and J.P. Mueller. 2006. Fecal Contamination of Agricultural Soils Before and After Hurricane-Associated Flooding in North Carolina. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A, 41:173–184, 2006
Tu*, C., F.J. Louws, N.G. Creamer, J.P. Mueller, C. Brownie, K. Fager, M. Bell, and S. Hu. 2006. Responses of soil microbial biomass and N availability to transition strategies from conventional to organic farming systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 113 (2006) 206–215.
Schroeder*, M.S., N.G. Creamer, H.M. Linker , J.P. Mueller, and P. Rzewnicki.2006.
An Interdisciplinary and Multi-level Approach to Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Education at North Carolina State University. HortTechnology 16: 418-426.
Unruh Snyder, L. J., J.P. Mueller*, J-M. Luginbuhl , K. E. Turner, and C. Brownie. The influence of intra-row spacing and coppice height on growth characteristics and allometry of Robinia pseudoacacia as a silvopastoral system component. (in press, Agroforestry Systems)
Unruh Snyder L.J., J-M. Luginbuhl * , J.P. Mueller , A. Conrad, and K. E. Turner Intake, digestibility, and nitrogen utilization of black locust foliage fed to growing goat wethers (in press, Small Ruminant Research)
Mueller*, J. P ., Pezo, D. A., Benites, J. and Schlaepfer, N. P. 2001. Conflicts between conservation agriculture and livestock over the utilization of crop residues. In: Garcia-Torres, L., Benites, J. and Martínez-Vilela, A. (eds.). Conservation Agriculture: A World-wide Challenge. 1st World Congress on Conservation Agriculture. Madrid 1-5 October 2001. Vol. I. Keynote Contributions. XUL, Cordoba, Spain. Pp. 210-225.
Unruh Snyder, L.J., J.P. Mueller*, J-M. Luginbuhl , and C. Brownie. C. 2005. The Influence of spacing and coppice height on herbage mass and other growth characteristics of Black locust in a southeastern USA silvopastoral system. In: M. R. Mosquera-Losada, A. Riguerio, and J. McAdam (Ed.) Silvopastoralism and Sustainable Land Management. CABI Publishing Wallingford, UK. Pp 480. ISBN 0 85199 006 1.
Mueller*, J. P ., N. G. Creamer, M. Barbercheck, M. Bell, C. Raczkowski, C. Brownie, A. Collins, K. Fager, S. Hu, L. Jackson, S. Koenning, N. Kuminoff, M. Linker , F. Louws, S. Mellage, D. Monks, D. Orr, J. Seem, C. Tu, M. Wagger, R. Walters, A. Wossink, and W. Zhang. Long-Term, Large-Scale Systems Research Directed Toward Agricultural Sustainability. Ed. J. Raupp. In Long-Term Experiments in Organic Agriculture International Society of Organic Agriculture research; In Long Term Field Experiments in Organic Farming. Raupp, Joachim, Carola Pekrun, Meike Oltmanns, Ulrich Köpke (Eds.) (2006) ISOFAR Scientific Series No 1. Verlag Dr. Köster, Berlin, Germany.
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