Jamie Barton, M.A.
Current Research
- Project Manager for Healthy Soils Hawaii which aims to increase soil health, sequester carbon, and reduce GHGs on Hawaii's farm and ranch lands through implementation of Best Management Practices
- Soil health research
- No-till management practices for small farms
- Development of new soil and water conservation management practices in cooperation with the Natural Resource Conservation Service and other partners
- Breeding non-invasive, seed-sterile grasses for use as high yield low input animal feed, biofuel production, and anaerobic digestion
- Development and evaluation of new crops for use as locally produced animal feed
- Bioenergy research with crops such as jatropha, oil palm, moringa, pongamia, sugarcane, and other oil seed crops and high biomass grasses
- Field trials with various crops to evaluate agronomic practices, economic feasibility and yields