Index
Below you find all projects sorted by areas of focus. On the project websides you will find a brief description of aims and methods, annual progress reports with results, presentations and publications.
Cereals and maize
A cropping system without heavy tillage
Locally adapted cereal varieties for quality in production and product
Maize - fertilisation and weed management
Maize, onion and sugar beet: strip-till establishment in withered cover crops
Spring wheat and autumn wheat - precrop, catch crop and fertilisation
Spring wheat and oats - variety and species mixtures for healthy crops with Fusarium in focus
Wheat and rye - botanical diversity against aphids
Dairy and beef
Automatic weighing as an animal health monitoring tool for livestock on pasture
Foot spray with environmental-friendly hypochlorous acid against digital dermatitis
Intake of birdsfoot trefoil and white clover by stall-fed beef heifers
Locally produced protein feeds and vitamin supply to dairy cows
Milk from cereals and high quality herbage only
Milk production based on herbage and cereal feeding ‒ effects on milk and methane production
Optimization of protein feeding in milk production – economy and environment
Tanniferous forage for improved nitrogen efficiency in dairy cows
Total mixed ration for dairy cows in sytems with automatic milking
Fruit and berries
Poultry
Protein crops
Faba bean - mixtures of varieties for yield stability
Faba bean and spring wheat intercropped - time of harvest, yield and fodder value
Faba bean and lupin - rye and roller crimping for weed control
Faba bean and narrow-leaved lupin intercropped with cereals - harvest time, weeds and fodder value
Grain legumes - species mixtures and varietal choice against soil-born diseases
Hemp seed - protein value and fatty acid composition
Lentils - cultivation in Sweden
Narrow-leaved lupin for grain – varieties, row distance and weed management
Weed management
Apples - new weed control methods
Carrots – prolonged germination period, with false seedbed and delayed sowing
Cooltsfoot – timing of cultivation, fragmentation and competition
Couch grass – optimal timing of stubble cultivation and cutting of a catch crop
Couch grass – competition and cutting
Couch grass - cut fallow to replace black fallow
Creeping thistle – cutting in a growing crop I
Creeping thistle and scentless mayweed – cutting in a growing crop II
Narrow-leaved lupin for grain – varieties, row distance and weed management
Perennial sow-thistle - crops, cultivation techniques and mowing
Perennial weeds - control with focus on the compensation point
Roller crimping for weed control in faba bean and lupin
Strip-till establishment of onion, maize and sugar-beet in withered cover crops
Vegetables
Cabbage and onions – natural enemies against pests
Cabbage insect pests - the use of flower strips
Carrots – prolonged germination period, with false seedbed and delayed sowing
Green manure - residual effects
Green manure – a multifunctional tool in vegetable growing
Cucumber powdery mildew - development of alternative control methods
Nightshade and hairy nightshade
Soil cover with plastic against weeds in row crops
Tomatoes – balanced fertilisation
Tomatoes - nitrogen and phosphorous
Tomatoes – compost against corky root
Tomatoes – microorganisms and biofumigation against corky root and fusarium crown and root rot
Weed harrowing and row hoeing with scraping tines in row crops