How to maintain soil fertility in stockless organic farming: research concepts and insights from the first crop rotation of a long‑term field experiment
With the increase of organic agriculture throughout Europe, there is also an increase of stockless organic farms. On mixed farms, growth of perennial legume-grass mixtures as well as farmyard manure are important contributors to soil fertility and play a key role for nutrient management. On stockless farms, such crops have no direct economic use and […]
No detectable elevated soil carbon under organic farming in German croplands − results from two soil surveys
Organic farming contributes to multiple environmental targets in agriculture. Long-term field experiments found that organic farming cropland not only emit lower greenhouse gas emissions but can also increase soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks relative to conventionally farmed plots. It is yet unknown whether the same SOC effect can be found in agricultural reality. In this […]
