Research interests and expertise: https://caes.ucdavis.edu/people/jeffrey-mitchell

Improving nitrogen and water use efficiencies in food, feed, fuel and fiber cropping systems, soil quality management and potential roles of cover crops and compost in intensive row crop production systems, and the use of cover crop mulches as a means of conserving soil water, suppressing weeds and increasing organic matter in no-till production systems. 

Conservation agriculture and precision irrigation crop production systems

Agricultural water management

Reduced disturbance, climate-smart, healthy soils production systems

Merging precision irrigation and conservation agriculture practices

Improving production efficiencies in terms of profitability, energy and water use and long-term soil resource quality

Development of conservation tillage and precision irrigation production systems

Carbon sequestration

Assessing and indexing management impacts on soil quality