Atlantic central Archives

Field trip for the case study about intensive vs. extensive vs. vegetable organic farming

1 August, 2023

Proefstation voor de Groenteteelt (PSKW) organizes a free field visit to their SDA trial in Muilshoek 1, Sint-Katelijne-Waver (Belgium) on august 10th with the support of Vlaanderen, Belorta, CCBT and agentschap innoveren & ondernemen. The visit is divided in two parts: the first one, aimed at PSKW members, will take place from 15h to 15h45 and aims to discuss about dealing with white and green zucchini variety tests, Zucchini early crop fertilization, artichoke variety test, and celery drought/black heart trial.The…

Update of Case Study 7 (Atlantic central, Belgium)

11 July, 2023

Inagro (Flanders, Belgium) organized a visit to the trial fields of its organic trial farm on Wednesday, June 28. The program included two parallel tours. An explanation about how was dealt with the difficult spring this year (due to the wet months of March and April) was also addressed. A networking event in the farm shed concluded the afternoon/evening. A total of 70 interested people were welcomed including a large number of organic farmers but advisers and people from various…

Pomona potatoes planting day

8 May, 2023

Pomona is a consumer-driven cooperative agroforestry farm applying sustainable agricultural management (agroecological farming) aiming at a perfect balance between a fully developed ecosystem and profitable crop production. On the 2nd of May, the field trial was prepared for planting potatoes. The planting itself was executed the next day, using a less automated and advanced way to limit the impact on the soil structure. Two workers on the back of the tractor planted 2 varieties of potatoes: Alouette, a red potato,…

Visit to the trial fields of Inagro

26 October, 2022

This past 6th of October, Inagro (Flanders, Belgium) organized a visit to the fields where its organic trial farm is located. The program included a discussion of the past growing season and a tour of the field trials. It concluded with a networking event in the farm shed. Thirty people were welcomed during the visit, including a large number of organic farmers but advisers and people from various agricultural supply companies also participated. The main focus of the visit was…

SoildiverAgro at the FestILVO

22 September, 2022

ILVO, the partner of SoildiverAgro, celebrated its 90th anniversary by means of a 4-day festival called FestILVO. Approximately 7000 people and 800 students visited FestILVO to learn about new food like algae, precision farming with drones, characterising soil organisms by advanced DNA-based methods like long-read sequencing and much more. On 2 professional days, more than 1000 participants followed a diversity of research topics in detail. One of the topics was “Speeding up soil health, six challenges for the future” to…

LLAEBIO visits SoildiverAgro CS6

9 September, 2022

On 8th September, the Flemish Living Lab Agro-Ecology and Organic Agriculture visited the SoildiverAgro’s case study 6 at ILVO, where the cover crop sown at the end of August is just coming up. A group of researchers, advisors, policy-makers, NGO-representatives and farmers learned about the trial setup and the first results. CS6 studies an organic rotation with potatoes and barley, in which manuring with stockpiled farm yard manure (FYM) is compared to FYM co-composted with ‘brown’ material (e.g. grass clippings…

Harvest at the Inagro’s organic experimental farm!

31 August, 2022

The harvest of the red beet for the case study 7 on Inagro’s organic experimental farm in Flanders (Belgium) has started. Due to the drought that delayed growth, it was a bit later than initially planned. It is now time to determine the yield, the sorting by size and the quality. After the harvest, it will be necessary to wait for a period of rain in order to sow the four cover crop mixtures again, of which the impact on…

Next Field Day at the Atlantic Central Region!

3 August, 2022

Save the date for the next August 11th at 4PM when a field day will be held in the Atlantic Central region. It will host a general visit to the organic field with all the trials and projects already going on there at the moment, one of them being the SoildiverAgro trial for case study 8. Soon more info related!

SoildiverAgro Posters for Case Studies

12 July, 2022

We created a round of posters to inform you of what we are accomplishing in each Case Study We hope you enjoy them! https://soildiveragro.eu/publications/posters/