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Workshops: Valorisation of biomass from landscape management

Build living soil with farm compost and wood chips Would you like to know what farm compost can do for the fertility and structure of your soil? During this workshop, we will share the initial results of the project on farm composting with grass clippings from nature conservation. We will explain the entire process: from managing wooded edges and mowing […]

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Local wood, healthy soil

What started as an experiment is today a practice that is taking hold all over Flanders. From our work on landscape management, we at Boerennatuur Vlaanderen were looking for ways to valorise the released wood in a way that was useful and accessible to farmers. That's how we ended up with the incorporation of wood chips into the soil in 2016.

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Soil life: How healthy are Limburg's gardens?

The soil is the foundation of every aspect of garden life. Without healthy soil, plants cannot root, grow or flower properly. Yet we tend to focus our attention on what happens above ground, while often knowing little about the condition of our own garden soil. This observation led to the creation of the Limburg citizen science project “Bodemleven” (Soil Life). Within this project

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Knolcyperus

Tuber cyperus: a pest in Flanders for 40 years and still relevant today

At first glance, tubercyperus appears to be a harmless grass-like plant, but appearances can be deceiving. This weed has been a persistent problem in Flemish agriculture for some time and is still spreading. It can crowd out your crops, reduce yields and even restrict your crop rotation. In Flanders, tuber cyperus first appeared in

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Use of green cover for an integrated approach to water quality

Over the past three decades, farmers, including from a policy perspective, have already implemented many interventions that have improved water quality, although this improvement has stagnated over the past 10 years. On sandy soils, a decrease in organic matter content is also observed. Boosting this again will have a positive impact on soil quality, the water retention capacity of

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Networking moment for farmers - Climate-smart forage harvesting through thoughtful crop rotation

With the implementation of the new CAP and IPM guidelines, farmers are obliged to practice crop rotation on their plots. Crop rotation is an important measure to make a farm climate-resilient: by improving soil health, one gets more stable yields and the farmer is doing risk spreading. But how do you start this

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Drip irrigation - Smart irrigation techniques in maize in northern Limburg

Need for irrigation In recent years, farmers are increasingly facing extreme weather conditions. During the growing season, we usually experience this in the form of prolonged drought. In northern Limburg, where we also encounter a lot of sandy soil, irrigation is therefore sometimes necessary to achieve an acceptable yield and quality of forage. This is often done using

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