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2020.08.26 |

Professor to join expert panel for citizens’ council on the green transition

A citizen's council is to be set up with 99 randomly selected Danish citizens as part of the government's new climate legislation. Professor Jørgen E. Olesen from AU is to join the expert panel that will validate the topics that the citizens' council is to address.

The trials compare different conventional and organic cultivation systems. Photo: Lars Kruse, AU

2020.08.26 |

Significant differences in the greenhouse gas balance of organic cultivation systems

By studying long-term field trials in Denmark and Switzerland researchers from, among others, the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University have found that the greenhouse gas balance varies significantly between different organic cultivation systems.

[Translate to English:] Forskernes håb er, at der udvikles en app, så landmænd over hele verden kan bruge smartphone til at vurdere indholdet af kvælstof i deres afgrøder. Foto: Colourbox

2020.08.26 |

Use your smartphone to check winter wheat’s nitrogen needs

A team of researchers with the participation from the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University investigated the possibilities of using drones or smartphones to assess the need to fertilise winter wheat with nitrogen.