Agroscope’s new 2022–2025 Work Programme aims to strengthen system research and co-create more research with farmers. It is also increasingly guided by the principles of agroecology.
Best4Soil, a network promoting soil health in Europe, is organising the virtual Final Conference on 16 February 2022. The aim is to share information and experiences gathered since the launch of the project in 2018.
Agroscope has developed risk indicators for plant protection products. These indicators highlight risk trends over time for important environmental compartments. Based on sales volumes of active substances, they take account of specific risk reduction measures.
The microflame and hot water offer new ways of controlling weeds without herbicides, and are an alternative to laborious manual weeding, e.g. on organic plots. Agroscope and BFH-HAFL are developing and testing the new methods.
On alpine pastures, measures for controlling problematic plants are limited. Nevertheless, grazing offers many options, with goats e.g. able to reverse the advance of green alder.
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