Soil health
...vy machinery and reduced tire pressure helps to avoid soil compaction. Less intensive and shallower tillage also saves the soil. How can we measure soil health? Measuring soil quali...
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Online masterclass: How to start with reduced tillage?
Why should you start with reduced tillage? What are the costs and benefits? Both financial and in terms of eco-system services? How to start with reduced tillage? what types of reduced tillage and rel...
ILVO BLOGS from the Experimental Platform for Agroecology in Hansbeke: Temporary grassland destroyed with minimal tillage
...AE Hansbeke) four techniques were applied on one plot to temporarily destroy grassland with minimal tillage. The agroecological approach tries to maximize the benefits of the less invasive soil tre...
ILVO BLOGS from the Experimental Platform for Agroecology in Hansbeke: Sowing wheat with minimal tillage and no plowing
...eat. The integrated disc harrow and pressure roller take care of the seedbed preparation so that no tillage is needed beforehand. The superficial tillage leaves the soil previously rooted through b...
Agroecology
Soil improvement with organic fertilizers
Erosion
...ckly, e.g., by building thresholds between ridges and clearing tire tracksErosion and non-inversion tillage ILVO has been doing research on non-inversion tillage for years, both on practical f...
Soil: carbon sequestration
Using field trials, ILVO is investigating the carbon contribution of crops, fertilization, soil amendments, and tillage
GOMEROS - Reducing water erosion in maize and vegetables cropping systems in support of cross-compliance.
...omeros project focused on cultivation techniques that reduce erosion on-site, such as non-inversion tillage, strip-till and ridges. Upon farmers’ suggestions, also measures that were not on the off...
Prevention and remediation of soil compaction
...hich benefits soil structure. The effects on crop yield were found to be highly variable. Deep soil tillage is quickly resorted to for remediating soil compaction, but it now appears that its impac...
Soil organic carbon sequestration potential of agricultural soils in Europe
...s for new emission factors for green cover crops, leguminous fodder crops, straw residue retention, tillage, irrigation, and agroforestry. ILVO's research showed that a higher proportion of legumin...
FoodForward
... and economic feasibility of food forests. Multi-annual plant combinations, minimal inputs and soil tillage, combining closed cycles with short chain is indeed a challenge. The most concrete result...
Enhancing ground cover on vegetable farms: Living Labs for resource conservation and economic sustainability in agroecological systems
...ns of crop and green manure, and sowing time. Under-seeding of green manures and the use of no-till tillage may allow faster seeding after green cover crops; this and other practices are evaluated....
Good management of winter weeds in organic arable and vegetable farming
... Bird's-foot and meadow grass now appear almost all year round and true camomile appears after soil tillage until late in the autumn. In winter cereals, these weeds are difficult to control, but al...
Famers explore the potential of dirct-drill techniques
Direct seeding in arable farming, as an alternative to intensive and deep tillage, is the focus of this project. The aim is to bring together in an operational group a number of pioneering farmers.
CTRL-ELAT 2.0: towards an integrated management of wireworm in potato cultivation.
...maining control options for conventional and organic cultivation are being evaluated: ground cover, tillage, variety selection, and biological and chemical pesticides. The project aims to develop a...
C-GRAS: Climate smart grassland management to increase carbon sequestration
...ations are investigated to maintain or increase the quality and production of turf (i.e., aeration, tillage, and renewal).Relevance/ValorizationFlanders aims to reduce its greenhouse gas em...
Well-structured soil, climate-smart soil management
How do adapted soil management practices, particularly mulching and reduced tillage, affect water evaporation, infiltration and retention, as an adaptation mechanism against extreme weather conditions
Policy advice: no-till is not our salvation, soil cover with live plants works, organic matter for better soil structure: management practices to restore and strengthen Flemish and European soils?
...ucial (as it usually is). No single practice is ideal in every combination of conditions, climate, tillage, crop, etc. So generalizations are not appropriate. The researchers compiled their r...
Preventing erosion in vegetables and maize: 4 years of GOMEROS
...ed boundary conditions on plots of land that are highly susceptible to erosion in Flanders. Minimal tillage and a whole series of other cultivation-technical measures have been tested and improved ...
Source-based erosion control techniques in vegetables and maize
Persistent soil compaction under arable fields and grasslands
...o compaction in the topsoil (0-30 cm), deeper compaction (> 30cm) is harder to alleviate. Normal tillage does not work the soil so deeply. A recent survey by Belgian farmers shows that 30% do no...
Soil compaction: prevention and remeditation
...anufacturers. Specifically, tests are being conducted on mechanical innovation, crop succession and tillage time. Existing and new knowledge about soil compaction is disseminated via a website (www...
Source directed erosion control techniques in vegetables and maize - final report
... on the erosion susceptibility of the plot and the crop. Cultivation measures, including non-return tillage, strip-till, and thresholds in ridge crops, are source-oriented erosion control measures ...
ILVO BLOGS from the Experimental Platform for Agroecology in Hansbeke: Mulch layer on the soil through a complex green cover crop
European agricultural soils on the road to climate smart and sustainable management. Findings after one year of EJP SOIL in Flanders.
...ients as answers to various soil challenges. In addition, stakeholders placed more focus on adapted tillage, innovative farming systems and water management, while current policy documents focus mo...
Potential of innovative (mixed) crops and cultivation techniques shown at second PPAE demo day in Hansbeke
...e effect on the soil will be intensively monitored in the coming years. 2. Minimal tillage to help soil structure and soil life and avoid carbon loss. Sowing without plowin...
How can we nourish the soil under strict phosphate norms and high fertilizer prices?
...ments on prices and compensation, and that it is a long-term cooperation based on trust. Do: Reduce tillage Working the soil less intensively, less frequently and less deeply is beneficial to o...
Compaction of agricultural soils can be (partly) solved, but prevention is more important
... measures tested ranged from lowering tire pressure, reducing passages, lower wheel loads, avoiding tillage under wet soil conditions, to deep plowing and sowing deep-rooting crops. These are the r...
Flemish farmers satisfied with the quality of their soils, more than half willing to apply no-till cultivation
...ish farmers are satisfied with the soil quality of their plots and 53% are practicing non-inversion tillage (no-till) on at least one plot. These are some of the preliminary findings from a widely ...
Permanent clover fields, innovative sowing methods, strip cropping: ILVO shares latest insights into agroecological agriculture during Demo Day in Hansbeke.
...rrow. This suppresses the growth of the clover's shoots. By not destroying the green cover crop, my tillage is even more minimal. This is beneficial for soil quality and fuel consumption, among oth...
ILVO with new demos and formulas at 2023 edition of Machinery Days
ILVO backs European ambitions for 75% healthy soils
...insights. In that trial for more than a decade ILVO has been monitoring the effect of non-inversion tillage and compost application on soil quality, disease pressure and crop yield. Soil Diver...
Soil research yields useful insights for Flanders and Europe: results from 5 years of EJP SOIL
...vement. The Case for Less Tillage It’s long been observed that perennial crops (like permanent grasslands) steadily build subsoil carbon, since tillage doesn’t interrupt photosynthesis and deco...