Expected Crop Yield Loss When Converting to Organic Dairy Farming in Denmark

Organic Dairy Farming – An Overview

Organic Dairy farming means raising dairy animals on organic feed and providing them the access to pasture, along with the restricted usage of antibiotics and hormones. Whereas organic fruits, vegetables, grains, and some livestock have long been mainstays of the organic movement, organic dairy is a relative newcomer. Organic dairy surged into the organic marketplace in the 1990s, establishing ...

Wildlife-friendly farming increases crop yield: evidence for ecological intensification

Ecological intensification has been promoted as a means to achieve environmentally sustainable increases in crop yields by enhancing ecosystem functions that regulate and support production. There is, however, little direct evidence of yield benefits from ecological intensification on commercial farms growing globally important foodstuffs (grains, oilseeds and pulses). We replicated two treatme...

Learning in Organic Farming – an Application on Finnish Dairy Farms

Organic farming technology may be relatively unknown to farmers at the time when they switch from conventional into organic farming. Therefore, experience gained over time and learning by doing may be important determinants in the efficiency of organic farming. It may also take time to reach the optimal nutrient stock of soil and optimal nutrient supply for arable crops under organic farming. T...

Design of an organic farming crop rotation experiment

N leaching losses for organic and conventional farming Estimated N leaching losses for organic and conventional farming in Denmark

20 MARIE TRYDEMAN KNUDSEN, IB SILLEBAK KRISTENSEN, JØRGEN BERNTSEN, BJØRN MOLT PETERSEN & ERIK STEEN KRISTENSEN Adresses: Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming (DARCOF), P.O. Box 50, DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark Research Centre Foulum, Department of Agroecology, P.O. Box 50, DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark Short title: N leaching losses for organic and conventional farming