2025 Eco Field Day
Research, Campus, Event | created by Linda Schinnenburg
Prof. Hülsbergen and the team of the Chair of Organic Agriculture and Agronomy presented their projects on the field experiments.
At the pre-excursion that took place on the same day, visitors could observe the field experiments on charcoal on the field.
From field trials to farming – the joint eco-field day is all about transferring research into practice in the field of organic farming. Joint tours of the various field trials bring research, consulting, and agriculture directly into conversation. What issues are relevant to agricultural practice, and what answers can research offer to these questions?
Joint research – joint goals
At the opening ceremony, representatives of the three host institutions welcomed the guests and emphasized the importance of organic farming for the future of agriculture in Bavaria:
- Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner, Dean of the TUM School of Life Sciences
- Prof. Dr. Martin Spreidler, Dean of the Faculty of Sustainable Agricultural and Energy Systems at HSWT
- Thomas Lang, Chairman of the State Association for Organic Farming
- Robert Knöferl, Director of the LfL Institute for Agroecology and Organic Farming
The stations
A total of 15 projects were presented at 12 stations. A complete overview of the stations and the experimental designs can be found here.
- State variety trial for soybeans
- Clover grass conversion to winter wheat and corn and Project Web-Man
- Variety trial for winter peas in mixed cultivation with triticale
- Soil profile and soil assessment
- Soil-conserving use of agricultural machinery
- Strip farming in agriculture: Diversified arable farming for risk reduction and sustainable climate adaptation – DIARNIKA
- Species-rich clover-grass mixtures and different times of use as food for pollinating insects
- Influence of the time and type of plowing in the preceding clover-grass on the yield and quality of the subsequent crops
- System trial: Comparison of organic and conventional cultivation and farming systems
- Project ISLAND: Effects of grain legumes in crop rotation, measurement of nitrous oxide fluxes
- Crop rotation long-term trial: trial presentation and effects on yield and quality of subsequent crops
- Crop rotation long-term trial: Earthworms benefit from clover grass as a preceding crop and from clover grass mulch for fertilization
- Crop rotation long-term trial: Effects on soil physical parameters
- digiMan project: Satellite and sensor-based analysis of soils and plants
- Greenhouse gas fluxes in energy crops: Crop rotation trial, effects of biochar and organic fertilization
Read more in the press release from the Bavarian Research Centre for Agriculture.
