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SoildiverAgro presentation at the Finnish Agricultural Science Days

17 January, 2024

Last week we celebrated Maataloustieteenpäivät (The Finnish Agricultural Science Days)! Between the 10th and 11th of January, our partner Luke participated in a national scientific meeting that brought together over 600 participants, including researchers, teachers, students, entrepreneurs and experts from different sectors of agronomy in Finland, to hear about the latest scientific research results and projects. In one of the sessions on a multidisciplinary approach to farmland diversity, Senior Scientist and Boreal Regional Coordinator Krista Peltoniemi, Research Scientist Annika Tienhaara…

LUKE partners at the Finnish Agriculture Science Days 10th-11th January

22 December, 2023

The Finnish Agricultural Science Days 2024 (Maataloustieteenpäivät Päivät)will take place in Helsinki Viikki campus next 10th and 11th of January. The objective of this scientific meeting is to gather researchers, teachers, students, entrepreneurs, experts and other stakeholders in Finland to listen to recent scientific research results and trends from different sectors of agronomy. LUKE experts from boreal region involved in WP5 and WP6 will be participating on the first session: 8:30-8:50 Annika Tienhaara: Viljelijöiden kiinnostus monimuotoisuutta tukeviin viljelykäytäntöihin (Farmers’ interest…

SoildiverAgro heading for USA

17 October, 2023

Our partner UPCT is going to represent SoildiverAgro at the ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting in Saint Louis, USA, from October 29th to November 1st. Raul Zornoza will be presenting two groundbreaking papers: Oral Presentation. “Soil and Climatic Characteristics Along with Farming System Are Shaping Bacterial and Fungal Communities in European Cereal Fields.” Session date/time: October 30, 2023, from 7:55 AM to 12:00 PM. Be there to witness Raul’s insights into how soil and climate, combined with farming systems,…

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…

First batch of Practice Abstracts available

12 July, 2022

SoildiverAgro produced the first batch of practice abstracts required by EIPAgri. Here you can check them in a more visual and friendly format. We hope you enjoy them! https://soildiveragro.eu/publications/practice-abstracts/

Diversity and community composition of soil fungi in European wheat fields under organic and conventional farming at Finland

22 April, 2022

In the national webinar on the 20th of April at 15:00 (time zone in Helsinki GMT +3) boreal regional coordinator Krista Peltoniemi from Luke gave a presentation in Finnish titled “Viljelyjärjestelmän ja muiden tekijöiden vaikutuksista peltomaan pieneliöyhteisöihin” in which she presents also results obtained from the SoilidiverAgro WP3 about the diversity and community composition of soil fungi in European wheat fields under organic and conventional farming. In the spring, the Organic Institute will hold four webinars on current topics in…

Proceedings Book from FAO symposium has been released

7 December, 2021

SoildiverAgro actively participated during the Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity (GSOBI21) which brought together over 5,000 participants from 160 countries. This event organised by the FAO has now published its proceedings book where two SoildiverAgro abstracts from UVigo are included on page 370 (M.J. Briones) and 815 (D.Fernández), download here: Proceedings of the Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity 2021 (fao.org) Interesting ideas, actions and gaps were shared and discussed through interactive plenary and parallel sessions. All agreed that soil biodiversity…