Uutiset - SoildiverAgro

Launch of SoildiverAgro Community, a network to exchange experiences and gain knowledge linked with production and ecosystem services

3 joulukuun, 2021

SoildiverAgro project launches the Stakeholders Community conformed by different stakeholders managing agro-ecosystems, which will be the primary beneficiaries of the project outcomes. Around each case study, volunteer farmers will be enrolled in Regional Communities to improve knowledge exchange between scientists, and stakeholders, to co-create new knowledge, to put into practice research results, to boost interactive and demand-driven innovation, and moreover to focus on real problems or opportunities that farmers are facing. These engaging activities are essential to demonstrate and promote…

Fresh SoildiverAgro findings at the World Soil day in Estonia

1 joulukuun, 2021

Our colleague Annely Kuu will give a short presentation on 3rd December about new SoildiverAgro findings. The online event Konverents toimub üle veebi: liitu konverentsi ülekandega siit promoted by our partner Estonian University of Life Sciences will take part in the 12th Soil Day. She will talk about the abundance and biodiversity of earthworms on the fields with three different agricultural technologies (ecological, conventional and direct sowing managed fields) and how the hot summer of 2021 affected the life of…

SoildiverAgro at Forum RIES21

16 marraskuun, 2021

On 10-11 November, FEUGA promoted our SoildiverAgro project at the VI forum RIES21, led by Cluster Saude de Galicia (CSG), in Balneario de Mondariz (Galicia-Spain). It functioned as a meeting point, with interactive dynamics to reflect on the most important and current issues of the ecosystem, to get to know the actors that operate in it, obtain information, knowledge and collaborations that have an impact on the benefit of their entities. In other words, the international event was a meeting point…

New video from Boreal region taking gas samples (CS14)

9 marraskuun, 2021

Our research engineer Sanna Maula, from Luke shows us how to take gas samples from one of our field sites (Case study14a investigating the effects of tillage practices).

Two seminars for WP3 results will be hold at Finland

26 lokakuun, 2021

Luke’s Natural Resources Unit’s will hold an internal online seminar on the 28th of October titled “Transition from intensive agriculture into productive and sustainable crop production. How to produce enough food in a sustainable way?” (in Finnish “Tehomaataloudesta tuottoisaan ja kokonaiskestävään peltokasvituotantoon. Miten tuotetaan ruokaa riittävästi ja kestävästi?”). Results of WP3 are being presented in a talk by Krista Peltoniemi. An external national webinar on the 10th of November titled as “The importance of soil microbiome in sustainable plant protection” (in…

Field day at the German experimental plots

18 lokakuun, 2021

38 participants mainly formed by farmers, journalists and consultants attended the field day hosted by the conventional farmer who conducts the main parts of CS 10 and 11 and organised by the German SoildiverAgro partners FAR and TI. The event was separated into a first part with oral presentations and a second part with an excursion to the experimental plots of Biocontrol of soil-borne phytopathogenic fungi by fungivorous soil fauna communities in potato cropping systems and Plant diversity is tested…

New field trial studies soil physical and chemical conditions, and biodiversity on wheat production

4 lokakuun, 2021

Due to the Corona-crisis, the field trial of Pomona, partner in the SoildiverAgro-project following an agro-ecological way of farming, has been postponed. During the last months, finally, the field trial was started to investigate the effect of 3 different applications of organic matter on wheat production, soil physical and chemical conditions, and biodiversity. This case study will test different sources of green manure for wheat production at Atlantic Central (Belgium). After harvest of the Triticum spelta crop of 2021 and collection…

Open field day at the organic experimental farm of Inagro in Belgium

17 syyskuun, 2021

On the 29th of September Inagro organizes an open field day at the organic research farm (’Biovelddag’). The visit to the trial fields includes a presentation of the SoildiverAgro Case study and some first results. (Case study 7: cover crop mixtures, a promotor of soil biodiversity in potato crops?) This visit will be held in Dutch and starts at 16h at Gabriëlstraat 11, 8800 Rumbeke-Beitem, Belgium). Other topics addressed will include a variety of trials of vegetable crops, reduced soil…

Theme day Water and soil in outdoor vegetables

29 heinäkuun, 2021

On the next 9th of August our partners from Proefstation voor de Groenteteelt (PSKW) will organize a Theme day related to water and soil in outdoor vegetables that will include a guided visit to one of the SoildiverAgro case studies: Intensive versus extensive versus vegetable organic farming. Atlantic Central (Belgium). The visit will be hold in Dutch and it will start on the organic field (Muilshoek 1, Sint-Katelijne-Waver) followed by a visit to the conventional trial field (Duffelsesteenweg 101, Sint-Katelijne-Waver).…

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Trial field with young broccoli in Belgium organic experimental case study

8 heinäkuun, 2021

On 30 and 31 March, our Belgium partner INAGRO took soil samples for the different analyses (biological, physical and chemical) related to Case study 7: Cover crop mixtures: a promotor of soil biodiversity in potato crops? Atlantic Central (Belgium). At that time the 4 different cover crop mixtures (little to very species-diverse) had mostly died off due to frost. In addition, earthworms were also sampled. The objective was to discover whether choosing a more species-diverse cover crop mixture already after…