Soil quality and crop productivity as affected by different soil management systems in organic agriculture

Koen Willekens; Bart Vandecasteele; Alex De Vliegher

doi:10.3220/REP_20_1_2014

Soil quality and crop productivity as affected by different soil management systems in organic agriculture

Koen Willekens, Bart Vandecasteele, Alex De Vliegher

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Compost prepared on-farm based on plant residues may be an alternative for manure from extensive
conventional livestock systems. In a multi-year field trial, we compared two soil management strategies: 1) farm compost application combined with reduced tillage and 2) animal manure incorporated by conventional mouldboard ploughing. Benefits for crop performance of both systems depended on the crop used in the rotation and the weather. A wet spring season caused the spring barley crop in the reduced tillage system to fail. The system showed a good potato yield due to a better youth growth, however. After one 4-year rotation, soil organic carbon content and pH of the upper 0-10 cm soil layer was ca 20% and 0.5 unit higher for farm compost compared to the farmyard manure treatment. The combination of compost application and reduced tillage proved to be a promising soil management strategy.

Taal	Engels
Titel	Proceedings of the 4th ISOFAR Scientific Conference. ‘Building Organic Bridges’ : 1, Thuenen Report
Editors	Gerold Rahmann, Uygun Aksoy
Volume	20
Plaats productie	Braunschweig, Germany
Uitgeverij	Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut
Datum	2014
Pagina's	65-68
ISBN van geprinte versie	978-3-86576-128-6
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.3220/REP_20_1_2014
Status	Gepubliceerd - 2014
Evenement	18th Organic World Congress - Istanbul, Turkije Duur: 13-okt-2014 → 15-okt-2014

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Willekens, K., Vandecasteele, B., & De Vliegher, A. (2014). Soil quality and crop productivity as affected by different soil management systems in organic agriculture. In G. Rahmann, & U. Aksoy (editors), Proceedings of the 4th ISOFAR Scientific Conference. ‘Building Organic Bridges’: 1, Thuenen Report (Vol. 20, blz. 65-68). Braunschweig, Germany: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut. https://doi.org/10.3220/REP_20_1_2014

Willekens, Koen ; Vandecasteele, Bart ; De Vliegher, Alex. / Soil quality and crop productivity as affected by different soil management systems in organic agriculture. Proceedings of the 4th ISOFAR Scientific Conference. ‘Building Organic Bridges’: 1, Thuenen Report. bewerker / Gerold Rahmann ; Uygun Aksoy. Vol. 20 Braunschweig, Germany : Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 2014. blz. 65-68

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