...he soil by introducing intensive rooting crops and perennial crops, such as temporary grassland and grass-clover, into the rotation, limiting fallow periods and by maximizing green cover and applyi...
Dairy farmers can reduce their nitrogen emissions by switching to grass-clover in combination with reduced nitrogen fertilization and mowing practices that improve grass silage quality. Reducing prote...
...urces also makes a big difference.Spreading less fertilizer on grassland and switching to grass-clover can again reduce several percent CO2 equivalents. Keeping fewer young cattle by increa...
In the coming years, we will investigate whether this method produces higher yields of grain compared to the traditional rotation of three years of grass-clover followed by two years of grain.
...p enough nitrogen reserves in the soil to grow grain two years in a row without fertilizing!The grass-clover does receive fertilization. It receives 35 tons of cattle slurry at the beginning of...
...on, and through collaboration between farms.For example, organic livestock farms with temporary grass-clover and mixed crops with legume component in the rotation, can more easily build up a su...
...ion of the mulch "Our original plan was to mulch with fresh grass clippings, the first cut of a grass-clover field sowed in fall of 2020. Due to soil conditions that were too wet when the cut b...
... long chain. Agroecological principles that are already well established include the cultivation of grass-clover mixes, the reuse of stable manure, knowledge sharing among farmers, even natural gra...
...ood (cereals and pseudo-grain such as buckwheat) or can be used as roughage or concentrates (grass-clover, cereals, legumes) in animal husbandry. Ambitions in the slightly longer term, some of ...
Grass-clover mixes (fresh or ensiled) can be applied as a cut green manure in field and greenhouse crops. ILVO, Inagro, PCG and UGent evaluated whether the depth at which the cut green manure is intro...