Introduction of Organic Eprints

Organic Eprints is an open, on-line archive for research in organic food and farming with more than 10,000 publications - and growing rapidly. All use of the archive is free of charge. There are 15,000 registered users of Organic Eprints, and the archive has more than 175,000 visits each month. The archive contains scientific and popular articles, reports, presentations, project descriptions, books and other research publications. For each publication there is a short summary along with information about authors and contacts, publishing details, peer review status, subject area and research affiliation. In most cases, the full articles are freely available for download

Sowing time, false seedbed, row distance and mechanical weed control in organic winter wheat.

In organic farming, mechanical weed control in winter wheat is often difficult to carry out in the fall, and may damage the crop, and weed harrowing in the spring is not effective against erect, tap-rooted weeds such as Tripleurospermum inodorum, Papaver rhoeas, Brassica napus and others which have been established in the autumn. Some experiments concerning sowing strategy and intensity of mechanical weed control, which included row distance, were conducted. The results underline the importance of choosing weed control strategy, including preventive measures, according to the weed flora in the field. In the experiment with low weed pressure and without erect weeds, there was very little effect of sowing strategy and row distance. In such a case, the winter wheat might as well be sown early, in order to avoid possible yield loss by later sowing, and at normal row distance to enhance the competitiveness of the crop. In the experiments with high weed pressure and erect weeds, the weed control was better with late sowing and large row distance (high intensity control), even though this was not always reflected in the yield. However, the trade-off for lower input to the soil seed bank in organic systems should be enough to balance off the risk of smaller yield

Organic bread-wheat in New England, USA

In October 2010, researchers, farmers and millers from Maine and Vermont, USA, organized a trip to Denmark, in order to learn about local bread wheat production, milling and use from their more experienced counterparts with climates similar to their own. They have received a grant over four years for the project antitled Enhancing Farmers’ Capacity to Produce High Quality Organic Bread Wheat in which they will carry out research, development and education to improve the production and quality of organic bread wheat in the two states

Integration of Elymus repens control and post-harvest catch crop growing in organic cropping systems

In Northern Europe, Elymus repens (L.) Gould infestations are traditionally controlled by repeated stubble cultivation in the period from harvest to ploughing in autumn. However, in organic farming, post-harvest tillage is undesirable due to the need for retaining nutrients in the cropping system. The soil is mostly cropped in that period, limiting post-harvest tillage. Two control strategies against E. repens are presented that merge the objectives of achieving a significant reduction of E. repens while having the soil covered with plants during the post-harvest period. Strategy I is an integration of rhizome fragmentation by soil cultivation within two days after harvest in early August with subsequent sowing of a catch crop to suppress shoot growth from the rhizome fragments. Strategy II also includes growing a catch crop but is preceded by a mid-summer fallow period lasting 4-6 weeks where repeated soil cultivations are conducted to fragment, weaken and desiccate the rhizomes. Strategy II controlled 91-90% of the E. repens population while strategy I only controlled up to 40%, mainly because of the weakening and desiccation of rhizomes caused by repeated cultivations. However, the fallow period may lead to undesirable nutrient leaching from sandy soils and the grower will have to desist from growing a profitable maturing crop, aspects that should be counterbalanced against the urgency for E. repens control and other possible control options. Strategy I appears to be more relevant for low infestation levels of E. repens while strategy II would be more appropriate where infestations have become large

Organic Eprints - spiren til succes

FØJO har etableret et åbent internet-arkiv, Organic Eprints for forskningen i økologisk jordbrug. Siden starten i efteråret er der lagt 300 artikler ind - flest fra FØJO og andre danske projekter, men også fra resten af Skandinavien, Tyskland, Holland, Schweitz og sågar en enkelt fra Australien! På længere sigt er det intentionen at arkivet skal kunne samle resultaterne fra økologisk forskning - gerne over hele verden. Der er indgået aftale med FiBL Berlin om et samarbejde om at bruge arkivet til tyske publikationer og lave et tysksproget interface. Og CUL, Sverige vil arbejde for at svenske forskere i så høj udstrækning som muligt lægger deres publikationer ind i arkivet

Nyt fra de økologiske sædskifteforsøg - hvad sker der med jordens pulje af ukrudtsfrø på de økologiske forsøgsmarker

Ukrudtsfrøpuljen er undersøgt i de økologiske sædskifteforsø

Instruction on How to Submit a Full Paper Submission in Organic Eprints for the 4th African Organic Conference 2018

For submitting papers to the fourth African Organic Conference (4th AOC) to be held on November 5 - 8, 2018 in Cameroon, the Organic Eprints Archive will be used (www.orgprints.org). Accepted papers will be made available at the Archive as open and searchable online proceedings after they are accepted. You can find the papers and proceedings from the 3rd AOC here. These guidelines explain the most important steps that need to be taken for submitting a paper to Organic Eprints, including screenshots with explanations

Fact sheets for editors in Organic Eprints

There are many editors of different kinds in Organic Eprints, such as conference editors, institutional editors, project editors and, in particular, 33 national editors. Regularly new editors arrive and these fact sheets are meant to help new editors carry out their editor functions. Note that some of these fact sheets are under revision because they are partly outdated or incomplete, and that revised versions will be made avaialable here when they are finished

Hvad er en god vårbyg til økologisk jordbrug?

Gennemgang af hvad en god vårbygsort er for økologisk jordbru

Rodukrudt i sædskifteforsøg

Intensiv bekæmpelse forår og efter høst samt i kartofler reducerede kvik, men ikke tidsler