SLM Database

Postponing the timing of ploughing a grassland field by one or two years to reduce nutrient losses and organic matter decomposition.

• Compiler: Jason Stuka
• 04/25/2015 8:54 nm.

Mineral ferilizers are (partly) replaced by organic fertilizers in order to have a higher organic matter input

• Compiler: wijnand sukkel
• 07/19/2017 3:30 nm.

Certified Organic Agriculture (EU standards) with a combination of arable and vegetable crops on sandy loam soils in the Netherlands

• Compiler: Marie Wesselink
• 12/06/2017 7:59 vm.

Separation of cow manure is a common practice on dairy farms in The Netherlands to improve the nutrient use efficiency.

• Compiler: Simone Verzandvoort
• 05/10/2015 4:23 nm.

Submerged drains are drains installed in grassland on peatsoils with the aims to decrease soil subsidence and emission of CO2 and N2O due to the oxidation of peat soil, and to maintain suitable groundwater levels in fields for grassland production and grazing.

• Compiler: Simone Verzandvoort
• 10/30/2015 12:29 nm.

Certified Organic Agriculture (EU standards) with a combination of arable and vegetable crops on sandy soils in the Netherlands

• Compiler: wijnand sukkel
• 07/20/2017 10:26 vm.

This technique can be applied in any crop rotation or soil. Tillage of the soils is done with special machines that do not turn over the soil (non-inversion), and the tillage depth can be more shallow than with conventional tillage (ploughing).

• Compiler: wijnand sukkel
• 07/19/2017 11:12 vm.

Grass intercropping on corn fields

• Compiler: Jason Stuka
• 03/24/2015 6:17 nm.

Humic acid application is a technology that allows the farmer to supply organic matter to the soil, without supplying additional nitrogen and phosphorus.

• Compiler: Jason Stuka
• 05/10/2015 12:48 nm.