Integrated Crop-Livestock System Resources 

Check out the following to learn more!

• Research Articles, Reports, and more 
  • Cheong et al., 2025- Exploring the impact of grazing on fecal and soil microbiome dynamics in small ruminants in organic crop-livestock integration systems.
  • Grazing Cover Crops Report, 2024- Evaluating the food safety impacts of sheep/goat grazing cover crops compared to tilled termination of cover crrops, and winter fallow before spinach and cucumber.
  • Cheong et al., 2024- Presence of foodborne pathogens and survival of generic Escherichia coli in an organic integrated crop-livestock system.
  • Cheong et al., 2024- Evaluation of environmental risk factors associated with survival of generic E. coli in organic integrated crop-livestock systems in California and Minnesota.
  • Patterson et al., 2022- Risk factors of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in livestock raised on diversified small-scale farms in California.
  • Foothill ICLS Workshop- Soils and Grazing Factsheet, 2023.

  • UCCE Newsletter- Measuring Fecal Pathogens in Almond Orchard Soils Post-Grazing article

  • Benefits & Risks of Crop-Livestock Integration website

Are you a researcher or involved in this project? Share your updates, videos, content, or links by emailing  EMiller@organic-center.org.