933105 Crop rotation systems and production methods in organic farming
- Type
- Lecture and exercise
- Semester hours
- 1
- Lecturer (assistant)
- Organisation
- Offered in
- Sommersemester 2023
- Languages of instruction
- Deutsch
- Content
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Selection of crops and description of crop performances; developing model crop rotations; conversion of conventional, integrated crop rotations to organic crop rotations; to understand the most important crop rotations;
- Introduction in self-(in)compatibility, precrop effects and functions of crop rotations in different cropping systems (conv.-integrated-organic), share of crop, yields, interactions of management measures
- Development of crop rotations of different farm types and climate zones
- Crop management of most important crops in organic farming
- Excercises (research farm) and final discussion
- Previous knowledge expected
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LVA Organic Agriculture ("Ökologische Landwirtschaft")
- Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)
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Graduates of this course
- know the main crops in organic farming;
- understand essential criteria for planning crop rotations like self-(in)compatibility and pre-crop effects;
- assess the sustainability of crop rotations;
- develop independently crop rotations of organic and conventional farming.
You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.