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Organic dairy crop rotation

Location

Foulumgård Experimantal Station (56° 30' N, 09° 34' E, 54 meters above sea level)

Starting year

The experiment started in 1987.

Short description

The objective is to offer a research facility where all questions of relevance to crop production on a dairy farm, irrespctive of size, can be investigated. This includes crop rotation composition, nutrient dynamics and GHG emissions, aspects of grassland production and grazing, soil clover fatigue, biodiversity and as model for systems analysis at the farm level.

Soil type(s)

Loamy sand, Typic Hapludult, course loamy, mixed, mesic.Moraine from Weichsel

Main experimental treatments

  • Animal manures
  • Crops
  • Crop rotation

Sample archive

The archive contains samples of crops and soils for the whole period.