SLM Database

A field at risk for erosion by water is divided so that a grass strip prevents soil loss and further damage to the field and the streets during a heavy rainfall.

• Compiler: Deborah Niggli
• 05/19/2015 8:26 p.m.

In response to changing environmental conditions, it can be valuable to adopt new plant varieties that offer benefits such as drought tolerance. The technology described covers one such response in Switzerland.

• Compiler: Seraina Lerf
• 05/24/2022 10:30 a.m.

The riparian zone is the buffer area between a watercourse and the adjacent land. Healthy riparian ecosystems stabilise the banks, maintain the microclimate, protect against flooding, filter chemicals and improve both biodiversity and water quality.

• Compiler: Nives Ramisberger
• 04/28/2022 2:50 p.m.

Organic agriculture is a system of crop cultivation that uses biological methods of pest control and organic fertilizer as substitutes for chemical fertilizers and pesticides. It targets sustainability, enhancement of soil fertility, and biological diversity by aiming to close nutrient cycles while generally prohibiting synthetic pesticides, antibiotics, synthetic fertilizers, genetically …

• Compiler: Moritz Laub
• 05/17/2024 10:53 a.m.

Intercropping of grain legumes with cereals is a sustainable agricultural practice in Swiss farming. This involves growing grain legumes (such as peas or beans) alongside cereal crops (like barley or wheat) in the same field, reducing crop failure or yield risk, stabilising the grain legumes, promoting biodiversity and enhancing overall …

• Compiler: Basile Brunner
• 04/22/2022 12:09 p.m.

A cropping system which allows to plant the seeds directly into the soil without ploughing. The soil is covered with plant remainders.

• Compiler: Unknown User
• 03/10/2011 7:10 p.m.

A cropping system for maize which reduces the reworking of the soil to the stripes, in which the seeds are planted.

• Compiler: Joana Eichenberger
• 03/10/2011 6:39 p.m.

Ackerbaufruchtfolge auf anmoorigen Böden (>10% organische Substanz) mit Herausforderungen im Umgang mit Stauwasser aufgrund einer Wasserundurchlässigen Tonschicht im Unterboden.

• Compiler: Julian Meier
• 12/04/2020 2:31 p.m.

Die Ökologische Ausgleichsfläche darf nicht vor dem 15. Juni geschnitten werden. Der Landwirt nutzt die Wiesen mit zwei Schnitten als Futter

• Compiler: Julian Meier
• 12/04/2020 3:36 p.m.

Der Landwirt praktiziert Gemüse- und Ackerbau auf organischen Böden im "Grossen Moos", dem ehemalig grössten Flachmoor der Schweiz. Dabei kultiviert er Gemüse wie Karotten und Zwiebeln, aber auch Ackerkutluren wie Mais, Kartoffeln und Winterweizen.

• Compiler: Julian Meier
• 12/08/2020 10:24 a.m.