Designing and valuing future farm landscapes

A major challenge for agriculture in the 21^st century is to develop integrated farming systems that produce food, fiber, fuel, and ecosystem services. Diversity and productivity of agricultural systems could be enhanced by the establishment of perennial crops on strategic landscape positions that maximize their benefits and complement annual crop production. We are employing spatially explicit models to optimize multiple agricultural products and ecosystem services on a watershed scale. Multiple disparate outputs from such landscapes will be evaluated using decision analysis. This work will provide new insight on the intersection between valuation and design in shaping future agricultural landscapes.