field day Archives - SoildiverAgro

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…

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…

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!

Field Days at Nemoral Region

1 August, 2022

On the 15th and 18th of July, the soil functionality was discussed with farmers based on the information gathered by SoildiverAgro Nemoral field experiments. The importance of biota and soil moisture as drivers for proper yield formation was shown to every attendee throughout the open field day. Thank you all for coming!

Workshops and field days at Mediterranean South for CS1 and CS2

13 June, 2022

Next 22 and 24th June our partner UPCT invite you to participate in two workshops and field days related to CS1 and CS2. 22nd June a presentation of the project accompanied by a visit to the Tomás Ferro experimental farm, where the melon trial plots are located. These trials belong to the so-called CS1 of the project focused on the use of soil biodiversity to increase the availability of nutrients and water and reduce the incidence of soil-borne diseases to…

Field day at the German experimental plots

18 October, 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…

Finland hosts the first field visits

30 October, 2019

The first of the field days held in July was attended by about 75 farmers and advisors who analyzed cover and companion crops, organised by Tyynelä Farm. Participants performed several shovel tests in the field, to perform a simplified soil diagnosis. Soil specialists from University of Helsinki and local advisory oganization showed attendees how to perform a visual soil assessment for decision making. The project aroused great interest among the participants and actively discussed topics related to crop rotation, soil…