| • In 2000 an organic rotation research and demonstration experiment was set up at Teagasc (Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority) Oak Park, Co. Carlow, with an overall aim ‘to improve the yield and quality of organic arable crops in Ireland’ • A field scale, long term, stockless seven year rotation experiment was established having three replicates. The single rotation consisted of two years grass / clover pasture followed by five years of cropping, three in cereals, one potato and one legume crop. • The area was previously in long term silage pasture, which provided a good base from which to convert to organic. • Within and across the plots a range of ‘component research’ was undertaken, mainly cultivar comparison and some sowing rate... |
