New video from Boreal region taking gas samples (CS14)
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).
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).
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…
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…
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…
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…
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).…
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…
In June 2021 at plant growth stage 39 (BBCH scale), colleagues of the project partners TI and FAR collected samples of soil, plants and litter in all treatments. Furthermore, sampling included soil microorganisms, nematodes, soil microarthropods and earthworms. These samples are part of case study 11, Plant diversity is tested to promote soil intrinsic self-regulating processes and to enhance fungivorous soil fauna communities in wheat-cropping systems. Continental (Germany).
Our Finnish partners Luke and Tyynelä farm took the first gas samples for GHG determination on the 25th of May and the 8th of June, and the first soil samples on the 17th of June from Boreal pedoclimatic region in the field of case study 14b located in Tyynelä farm in south-Eastern Finland. The experimental field in case study 14b was established in the winter wheat field to study the effect of reduced tillage combined with direct sowing used in organic…
Partners from the Lusitanian region went to the plots involved in Case study 3 to take samples of soil and earthworm.