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Save the date for the Soil Health Conference

14 October, 2022

Do not forget that next 5th December –on the proper World Soil Day- ILVO, Wervel, LLAEBIO, VUB, Organic Forest, SoildiverAgro and Agromix are inviting you to the Soil Health Conference Harnessing biodiversity for better agronomy in Brussels! The conference aims to answer key questions about the future of agronomy, starting with a historical perspective. There will be room for presentations that will provide scientific evidence for a biodiversity-based approach and numerous good practices. You’ll be able to find the full…

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…

SoildiverAgro celebrates ‘festILVO’ on september in Merelbeke

20 June, 2022

ILVO, a research institute in Flanders, Belgium, conducting international research on agriculture, fisheries and food, and partner of SoildiverAgro, becomes 90! To celebrate, ILVO organises a national, multi-day festival to which stakeholders and all interested are invited. On 15, 16, 18 and 19 September, you are welcome at the festival site in Merelbeke, in the middle of 200 hectares of trial fields. festILVO, a unique FOOD festival that, together with the many tasting sessions, also serves up the production process…