Bruno Basso

New York Post | 2021-05-21

Farmers increasingly have been growing offseason cereals and grasses to prevent erosion and improve soil. Now, they're gaining currency as weapons against climate change. Experts believe keeping ground covered year-round rather than bare in winter is among practices that could reduce emissions of planet-warming gases while boosting the agricultural economy, if used far more widely.

AGDAILY | 2021-03-10

Farmers in the Midwest may be able to bypass the warming climate not by getting more water for their crops but rather by adapting to climate change through soil management, says a new study from Michigan State University. “The Midwest supplies 30% of the world's corn and soybeans,” said Bruno Basso, an ecosystems scientist and MSU Foundation Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences within the College of Natural Science.

Big Ten Network | 2020-04-15

"We face a global paradox, that we have to produce more food with less land and under the tract of increased climate variability and extreme events that we witness just about every year now," says Bruno Basso, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and lead researcher at the Digital Agricultural System Lab. "Compared to the past where the goal was only increasing production, we have to allow resources to be maintained more with integrity for the next generation, to continue to produce food."

Bloomberg | 2018-05-17

While hotter weather generally threatens to sap crops of needed moisture, data from Midwest corn-growing states suggests the region will see warmer summers with more humidity, which would aid plant growth and yields, according to a study by Michigan State University researchers Bruno Basso and Joe Ritchie.