At Foulumgård at AU Viborg the Department of Agroecology has access to more than 90 ha of land of the soil type JB4 (fine sand mixed with clay). Approximately 70 ha are used for conventional field trials and the remaining 20 ha are used for organic trials. The Department of Agroecology also rents five ha of sandy soil (JB1) with the aim of being able to conduct trials with irrigation on this soil type.

Of the total field area approximately 60 ha are irrigated with permanent ground pipes.

At Foulumgård the department has access to facilities and technology for dealing with a wide range of different research tasks, including production of biomass for energy and biorefinery, cultivation of catch crops, tillage trials, measurement of nutrient leaching, trials with animal manure, lowland crop production, and cultivation of roughage.

We also have semifield facilities, lysimeters, greenhouses and climate chambers.

Contact

Jens Bonderup Kjeldsen

Field Manager

M jens.b.kjeldsen@agro.au.dk

P +4587157787
P +4540260782

Address

Blichers Allé 20
Postbox 50
8830 Tjele

Projects on Foulumgård

AnaEE

AnaEE Denmark includes three major platforms focusing on arable ecosystems for research into future food security, bioenergy production and environmental and climate impacts.

Go-Grass

The GO-GRASS project will develop a set of small bio-based solutions to unleash the overlooked potential of grasslands across Europe and create new business opportunities.

Klimini

The purpose of the project is to ensure an environmentally friendly use of NI to reduce N2O emissions from Danish agriculture.

PLAP - Pesticide warning

The Danish Pesticide Leaching Assessment Programme (PLAP) is an early-warning monitoring programme

CCRotate

In a long-term crop rotation experiment and new field trials, the CCRotate project investigates the effect of cover crop mixtures on productivity, weed pressure and climate footprint.

Green Valleys

Green Valleys is a three-year EU project with the goal of establishing and developing a platform for biorefining.

LessN

The LessN project will identify crop rotations with particularly low nitrogen leaching, document their effect and index them.

ClimOptic

The Organic RDD project ClimOptic develops optimized organic fertilizers, crop rotation and fertilizer management for climate-efficient organic plant production.

HyPErFarm

The EU Horizon 2020 Innovation Action project “HYPERFARM - Hydrogen and photovoltaic electrification on farm” is a collaboration with 14 partners.

N-Tool_Precise

A combination of satellite monitoring and digital soil and cultivation data can make nitrogen fertilization far more accurate for the benefit of both farmers and the environment.

GrainLegsGo

The aim of GrainLegsGo is to increase the cropping of fresh grain legumes for human consumption, while providing environmental and climate benefits and promoting circular bioeconomy.

ClimateGrass

The climate grass project will investigate whether it is possible through optimization and development of cattle crop rotations to increase carbon storage in the soil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Observation varieties

Fieldplans for observation

Department of Agroecology

Foulumgård