With a continuous living cover and as little intervention in the soil as possible, it should be possible to establish various main crops in a water-saving way. Hans Gnauer has gathered practical experience on his farm and shows the challenges.
Organic farming is often seen as the ideal way to meet numerous challenges facing agriculture. Anyway, it is too easy to draw a simple opposition between “organic” and “conventional” - a sustainable agriculture in the long term is needed.
Stefan Wüthrich is a DLG member and manages with his family an organic dairy farm of about 50 ha with 70 cows in the Three Lakes region in Switzerland. His main production branch is dairy farming for cheese production. In addition, he keeps 4,000 organic broilers.
Martin Sedlacek from the Czech Republic is DLG member for more than 20 years now. He is a publisher and a director of a publishing house for journals on agriculture and other specialist topics in the Czech and Slovac Republic and a farm journalist himself as well.
In this Expert Knowledge Series pamphlet ‘Mechanical weed control – practical concepts for root crops’, consultants show which aspects need to be focused on when developing an operational strategy, and experienced farmers provide an insight into the concepts used in their locations.
In this Expert Knowledge Series pamphlet ‘Mechanical weed control – practical concepts for cereals’, consultants show which aspects need to be focused on when developing an operational strategy, and experienced farmers provide an insight into the concepts used in their locations.
