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| Mullender, Samantha. |
| Organic principles and standards emphasise the importance of practices that encourage long-term health and fertility of agricultural soils. Effective crop rotation, cultivation regimes and organic fertiliser application are important elements of the organic approach. Whilst such practices can undoubtedly increase the soil’s health, their true impact is still uncertain, particularly with regard to soil nutrient and organic matter contents. The articles explains how modelling some organic rotations on UK farms as part of the OK-Net Arable project produced some challenging results. |
| Tipo: Newspaper or magazine article |
Palavras-chave: Nutrient turnover. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/32848/1/Mullender_2017_NDICEA%20ORC123_p8-9.pdf |
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| Bliss, Katie; Padel, Susanne; Cullen, Beth; Ducottet, Charline; Mullender, Samantha; Rasmussen, Ilse A.; Moeskops, Bram. |
| Organic farming is knowledge intensive. To support farmers in improve yields and organic agriculture systems, there is a need to improve how knowledge is shared. There is an established culture of sharing ideas, successes and failures in farming. The internet and information technologies open-up new opportunities for knowledge exchange involving farmers, researchers, advisors and other practitioners. The OK-Net Arable brought together practitioners from regional Farmer Innovation Groups across Europe in a multi-actor project to explore how online knowledge exchange could be improved. Feedback from the groups was obtained for 36 'tools', defined as end-user materials, such as technical guides, videos on websites informing about practices in organic... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Soil tillage Education; Extension and communication Weed management. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/32860/2/Bliss_Exchanging%20knowledge_32860.pdf |
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| Mullender, Samantha. |
| Using NDICEA, farmers can identify where problems with nutrient loss/imbalance occur in their rotation. They can experiment with changes in rotation or management to find the most effective strategies to address nutrient imbalances and nutrient losses due to leaching. Practical recommendation • NDICEA is a freely available, computer-based nutrient budgeting tool developed by the Louis Bolk Institute in the Netherlands. It takes data on the crop rotation for an individual field rotation, alongside data on climate, soil properties and management practices (e.g. seed rates, fertiliser application, cultivation regimes etc.) to map changes in soil nutrients over the course of the rotation. • Application of the tool on seven organic farms found that, of... |
| Tipo: Practice tool |
Palavras-chave: Farm nutrient management. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/32609/1/PA_014_ORC_NDICEA_final.pdf |
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