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Boreal Region Field Day!

15 September, 2022

Tomorrow, 16th September 2022, the event titled “Senkin liero! Madot, maanviljelijän mainiot ystävät” will be held in Jokioinen at Elonkierto exhibition park (Ojaistentie 44) from 9:00 to 11.30. Our senior scientist Visa Nuutinen (from LUKE) will tell what is good for the farmer to know about the life of earthworms, and what kind of cultivation methods favour their existence. There will be pits to investigate how many and what type of earthworms live in field soil. In addition, there will…

wheat sampling continental case study 11

Wheat sampling in the Continental region

2 July, 2021

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).

Soil and earthworm sampling at CS3 plots at Lusitanean

24 June, 2021

Partners from the Lusitanian region went to the plots involved in Case study 3 to take samples of soil and earthworm.