Did you see a group of 20 people walking around in the fields outside Uppsala last Tuesday? It was us, people from the Department of Crop Production Ecology, SLU, taking the opportunity to look at some of our co-workers agricultural- and landscape experiments at Säby and Lövsta.
We got to learn about crop rotations, crop variety testing and agricultural long-term experiments. We looked at a relatively “new” long-term experiment - a cropping system experiment to be used as a research platform for maize and winter wheat in monoculture and rotations. We also discussed grass-legume mixtures in leys as well as grazing and the combination of crop production and livestock production.
Thanks to researcher Rafaelle Reumaux and Professor Ingrid Öborn for organizing this day, with interesting talks, nice sunny weather and a coffee break with time for reflections on our impressions.
Take a look at our webpages about some of the field research projects that are entirely or partly conducted, in Säby and Lövsta outside Uppsala, by the Department of Crop Production Ecology:
BLANDSKAP - Sustainable food production and biodiversity with grazing animals
DIVERSOW - Increasing crop genetic DIVERSity to close the yield gap in Organic Wheat farming
Legume innovation for future agri-food systems - N2CROP
SustAinimal - a knowledge center with a focus on the production animals' future role
John Löfkvist, Experiment Technician
Lövsta, SLU
john.lofkvist@slu.se, 018-67 14 27