Reduced Tillage

What FiBL is doing on this theme
- Frick trial on preparations and soil, Department of Soil Sciences, FiBL Switzerland
News on the theme
- 04/06/2022 : Updated fact sheet "Soil and Climate" on the climate impact of organic soil management
- 12/02/2021 : What happens in the soil when organic farmers stop ploughing?
- 10/04/2021 : Less is more – Testing reduced tillage under organic conditions
- 01/08/2020 : Awards for FiBL projects on soil fertility and reduced tillage
- 06/21/2017 : Tillage without using a plough: beneficial for soil and climate
- 05/11/2015 : The International Year of Soils at FiBL
- 10/23/2013 : Green fingers - Article on TILMAN-ORG in International Innovation
- 02/07/2013 : Video on reduced tillage: Farmers' motivations and problems
- 01/04/2012 : Integrating reduced tillage and green manures in organic cropping - New European research project has started
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Projects on the theme

Status	FiBL	Title	Start	End
completed	CH	Regenerative Parsley production in Central Europe	01.05.2023	15.07.2023
ongoing	CH	Impact assessment of mechanical weed control on the environment and yields (Hackfolgen)	01.01.2023	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	Strategies for the adaptation of arable farming systems to climate change and their contribution to climate protection in the Upper Rhine region (KLIMACrops)	01.10.2022	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	Strategic and technical support for the "Farming with Nature" initiative of Ingleby Farm&Forest group (Ingleby – Farming with Nature)	01.01.2022	31.12.2026
ongoing	CH	Organic conservation agriculture: weed management and soil quality (Adventisol)	01.01.2022	31.12.2025
ongoing	CH	Synergistic use and protection of natural resources for rural livelihoods through systematic integration of crops, shrubs and livestock in the Sahel (SustainSAHEL)	01.09.2020	01.09.2025
completed	DE CH	Overcoming the physical and mental barriers for upscaling Conservation Agriculture in the Mediterranean (ConServeTerra)	01.07.2020	30.06.2024
completed	CH	Bodenqualitätsindikatoren BQI-CH Perspektivmethode Infrarot-Spektroskopie	01.11.2019	01.02.2021
completed	AT	Erosion protection and resource conservation in organic maize cultivation	01.05.2019	31.12.2023
completed	CH	Relay intercropping – Further developing a resource-conserving cultivation system for soya in mixed culture in practice	30.04.2019	31.12.2021
completed	CH	SOCORT – Kohlenstoffsequestrierung durch reduzierte Bodenbearbeitung im Biolandbau (SOCORT/SOCORT2)	01.10.2017	31.12.2019
completed	CH	Alternatives to ploughing in organic agriculture	01.01.2017	31.12.2019
completed	AT	Development of yield and humus formation in the soil through reduced soil cultivation and organic fertilization (green manure and organic fertilizer) (AG-BIOBO)	14.03.2016	28.02.2019
completed	CH	Interactive Soil Quality Assessment in Europe and China for Agricultural Productivity and Environmental Resilience (iSQAPER)	01.05.2015	30.04.2020
completed	CH	Organic Knowledge Network Arable (OK-Net Arable)	01.03.2015	28.02.2018
completed	CH	Fertility Building Management Measures in Organic Cropping Systems (FertilCrop)	01.01.2015	31.12.2017
completed	CH	Structure and function of N2O producing and reducing microbial communities as influenced by soil management (NFP 68 – denitrification)	01.04.2013	30.03.2016
completed	CH	Dissemination of reduced tillage in the organic farming sector	01.01.2013	31.12.2017
ongoing	CH	Soil tillage experiment Schlatthof (Aesch trial)	01.01.2012
completed	CH	Soil and climate friendly crop production in organic farming (COOP BKBA)	01.01.2012	31.12.2016
completed	CH	Reduced tillage and Green Manures for Sustainable Organic Cropping Systems (TILMAN-ORG)	01.09.2011	31.08.2014
completed	CH	No-till agriculture - a climate smart solution?	01.01.2011	31.12.2011
completed	CH	Influence of multi-year reduced tillage on soil micro-organisms. A study on two commercial farms in the canton of Bern	01.01.2011	31.12.2015
completed	CH	Improving nutrient efficiency in major European food, feed and biofuel crops to reduce the negative environmental impact of crop production: Genotype x Management Interaction (NUE-CROPS)	01.05.2009	30.04.2014
completed	CH	Climate friendly arable and vegetable production (KLINE-AG)	01.01.2009	31.12.2011
completed	CH	Improving soil fertility by reduced tillage on the Juchowo farm in Poland	01.01.2009	31.12.2015
ongoing	CH	Impacts of bio-dynamic preparations, reduced tillage and fertilization on yield and soil fertility (Frick trial)	01.10.2002
completed	CH	Klimaneutraler Acker- und Gemüsebau? Ökonomisch-ökologische Wirkungsanalyse (KLINE-AG)		15.03.2012

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