56 articles in this issue
Veronika Curna,Magdalena Lacko-Bartosova
Emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccon Schrank, Triticum dicoccum Schubl.) is one of the oldest crop in the world. It belongs to the hulled wheat species which has been grown and used as a part of the human diet for a very long time. Presented results aimed at ev... see more
Martina Handlírová,Blanka Procházková,Vladimír Smutný
Within the period of 2011–2014, production capabilities of catch crops were evaluated after two dates of their sowing. The field experiment was established on the field experimental station in Žabcice (South Moravia, Czech Republic). The station is situat... see more
Eliška Ondrácková
The efficacy of entomopathogenic fungi from genus Lecanicillium, Isaria, Beauveria, and Purpureocillium were tested against larvae and adults of bean weevil (Acanthoscelides obtectus Say.). Some strains of Lecanicillium, Isaria and Beauveria showed obviou... see more
Ivana Capouchová,Ludmila Papoušková,Petr Konvalina,Dagmar Janovská,Monika Zrcková
The impact of Fusarium spp. contamination on baking quality of common wheat (variety Bohemia) from organic farming system was monitored by rheological system Mixolab. The mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) content and standard technological quality characteri... see more
Eva Erhart,Adriano Tomasetti,Stefan Pantic,Dieter Haas,Katrin Fuchs,Marion Bonell,Wilfried Hartl
Fractionation by particle size provides a rough differentiation between young active, and older intermediate and passive soil organic matter. Soil samples from three treatments of a 20 years` fertilization experiment, C2 which had been fertilized with 10 ... see more
Hendrik Sommer,Günther Leithold
The aim of the current study is to clarify if weak points analyze of nutrient cycles in organic dairy farms enables farm managers to identify the points in the farm nutrient cycle at which nitrogen leaching is most critical. Different nutrient cylce syste... see more
Lenka Predná,Marta Habánová
In our research, the antiradical activity (% inhibition DPPH) as quality indicator of selected species of small berry fruits were observed. The analysis of their antiradical activity have shown that the highest values of inhibition of DPPH were found in b... see more
Sebastian Radlwimmer,Jürgen Kurt Friedel
Phosphorus (P) is an essential and limited nutrient. To avoid shortages in the coming decades, P recycling and efficiency of P use will have to be enhanced. Cover crops may help to transform less available P forms into bioavailable P forms. The aim of thi... see more
Sylvia Warnecke,Hans Marten Paulsen,Harald Schmid,Jan Brinkmann,Helmut Frank,Solveig March
In a German network of so-called pilot farms we determined the animal health and welfare status of dairy cows with the Welfare Quality® Assessment protocol for cattle. Based on the results, we developed scenarios for the farm model REPRO to investigate in... see more
Theresa Bernhardt
The function of the organic certification system is to enable systemic trust in organic agriculture and products. The growth of the organic sector over the past two decades has required therefore a change in the certification system replacing the first pa... see more
Hans E. Hummel,SS Langner,DF Hein,U Sanguanpong,H Schmutterer
Azadirachta indica (Indian Neem), A. siamensis (Thai Neem) and A. excelsa (Marrango, Philippinean/Malaysian Neem) belong to the Mahogany family and are endemic to the Indian subcontinent, with subsequent anthropogenic expansion to South-East Asia, but als... see more
Ádám Donkó,Tamás Miglécz,Béla Tótmérész,Orsolya Valkó,Balázs Deák,András Kelemen,Péter Török,Gábor Zanathy,György Zsigrai,Dóra Drexler
Intensive mechanical soil cultivation and herbicide treatment was often the preferred technology in vineyards in the second half of the 20th century. In the last decades we increasingly experienced the disadvantages of these suboptimal technologies: soil ... see more
Judith Hecht,Rahel Meier,Klavdija Ramsak-Noemi,Lisa Mair,Othmar Schwank,Olaf Tietje,Matthias Stolze
The Alpine region is exposed to two major challenges in terms of sustainable agriculture: 1) topographical conditions constrain the area, which can be used for agricultural production and 2) the Alps have suffered a dramatic loss of biodiversity in the la... see more
Tünde Takács,Imre Cseresnyés,Ramóna Kovács,István Parádi,Orsolya Gazdag,Tibor Szili-Kovács,Bettina Kelemen,Anna Füzy
Symbiotic effectivity of two- and tripartite symbiotic agents was investigated in a pot experiment on three soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) cultivars with special regard to compatibility. Host plants were single and co-inoculated with two Bradyrhizobium ja... see more
Barbara Cseperkálóné Mirek,Dániel Reite,Anna Divéky-Ertsey,Dóra Drexler
Landraces are an important cultural and economical heritage of agriculture. They have a low but stable yield and a great deal of adaptation against biotic and abiotic factors. Our aim is to test these varieties in organic farming, to see if there is a pos... see more
Zoltán Dezsény
With growing agricultural demands from both conventional and organic systems comes the need for sustainable practices to ensure long-term productivity. In Hungary small scale vegetable growers face challenges in producing their crops due to the lack of ef... see more
Monika Zrcková,Ivana Capouchová,Petr Konvalina,Dagmar Janovská
Collection of spring form of spelt wheat, emmer wheat and einkorn wheat genetic resources from the Gene Bank of CRI Prague-Ruzyne, cultivated in exact field small-plot trials under organic farming conditions of three experimental localities (Prague-Ruzyne... see more
Viktória Szente
The market of organic products is quite small in Hungary. However, based on its development potential it has strategic importance (SZAKÁLY, 2004). Thus the aim was to find answers how to increase the trade of organic products. To get more details about th... see more
Robert Home,Catherine Gerrard,Corinna Feldmann
Successful decision-making in the organic sector is dependent on the decision makers having high quality market data. However the quality of organic market data in Europe varies greatly and only basic statistics exist in many European countries. Improveme... see more
Hans E Hummel,Simone Langner,Michael Breuer
Lobesia botrana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) is a permanently established viticultural insect pest in all vinegrowing countries. According to recent findings, sex pheromones dispensed from electrospun mesofibers serve as environmentally compatible, biodegra... see more
Robert Home,Elke Ries,Anna Tschanz,Annina Indermühle
The number of organic farms in Switzerland has remained stable since 2009, although several studies have shown that financial arguments should mean that more farms convert to organic production. These results suggest that either farmers do not behave rati... see more
Tamás Csáki,Dóra Drexler
Varroatosis as the current bane of the beekeepers is causing the biggest economic damage in the apicultural sector. Consistent control of varroatosis should be provided without harmful effects such as the occurrence of toxic residues in the hive products.... see more
Tsolmon Nyamdavaa,Jürgen K. Friedel
The effect of different preceding crops, cover crops and manure application on the agronomic performance of potato was studied in two consequantial years in an organic farming system. The effect of lucerne, field pea and spring barley as pre-c... see more
Milan Macák,Štefan Žák,Marta Andrejcíková
Productivity of ecological and conventional system at two fertilization level, and average content of N, P, K and Mg in grains was evaluated in a field trial at south–western Slovakia during 1999-2005. A six-crop rotation pattern was used as follows: comm... see more
Sebastian Wolfrum,Anna Zvorykina,Anna Koehler,Susanne Papaja-Huelsbergen
Agriculture and biodiversity are strongly linked. Whilst agriculture is a main driver impacting biodiversity, farmers could benefit from ecosystem services linked to biodiversity. Hence, indicators of functional biodiversity are needed. However, finding c... see more
Milan Macák,Štefan Žák
The field trial was conducted during 1999–2005 at the RIPP in Pieštany in water protected zone. The nutrient balance of N, P, K, Mg and Ca was calculated for individual crops and for six crop rotation pattern as a whole. Incorporation of straw, catch crop... see more
Dagmar Janovská,Leona Leišová-Svobodová,Ivana Capouchová,Petr Konvalina,Martin Káš
Cereals are the most growing crops under organic conditions. Cereals are supposed to be a source of mycotoxins produced by Fusarium species. Our research was led to describe the differences among natural Fusarium species occurrence in two localities and t... see more
Mariana Švancárková,Štefan Žák
In the years 2003–2005 the field experiment was realized in the maize-barley growing region on degraded Chernozem. Two different farming systems – organic and conventional were compared. The yield and grain quality of winter wheat in organic and conv... see more
Stefan Tyr,Ludmila Levakova,Veronika Curna
The main aim of the study was to evaluate the occurrence and development of weed species in maize grown in sustainable farming systems. The work deals with the impact of climate variables (temperature and precipitation) on the actual weed infestation of m... see more
Boris Václav,Peter Ondrišík,Jana Urminská
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of different tillage, fertilization, depth of soil sampling and date of sampling on dynamics of Nin forms in a Haplic Luvisol under winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). In the experiment three main til... see more
Eri Matsuura,Rahmatullah Hashimi,Daisuke Muramatsu,Masakazu Komatsuzaki
Grass mulch is a traditional farming practice until the 1900’s and now only organic farmers use this practice. Farmers believes it has many benefits sush as preventing soil erosion, decreasing weed pressure, supplying nutrients to soil and preserving soil... see more
Aušra Marcinkeviciene,Rimantas Velicka,Rita Mockeviciene,Rita Pupaliene,Zita Kriauciuniene,Lina Marija Butkeviciene,Robertas Kosteckas,Sigitas Cekanauskas
This study aims to determine the impact of different non-chemical weed control systems on organically grown spring oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) crop weediness and yield of seeds. Non-chemical weed control systems: 1) thermal (water steam), 2) mec... see more
Dóra Mészáros,Jan Landert,Balázs Sipos,Christian Schader,László Podmaniczky,Lukas Baumgart
As so far no farm-level sustainability assessment tool has been adjusted to the Hungarian circumstances which measures all aspects of sustainability our aim was to develop a conceptual framework for adaptation process. Main steps were defined and literatu... see more
The objective of the present work was to evaluate the influence of growing season and variety on quantitative parameters (the total number of stems per m2 (pcs), the number of productive tillers per m2 (pcs), the average length of the stem and spike (cm),... see more
Renata Kazimierczak,Ewelina Hallmann,Karolina Kowalska,Ewa Rembialkowska
Raspberry fruits are a source of vitamin C, phenolic acids and flavonoids, including anthocyanins. There is scientific evidence that allows to assume that organic fruit and vegetables contain more bioactive compounds with antioxidant properties than plant... see more
Joanna Korczyk-Szabó,Magdalena Lacko-Bartosova
The texture of cooked noodles is a very important quality characteristic for both processors and consumers. Selected indicators of noodle texture of three spelt cultivars – Altgold, Ostro and Franckenkorn grown in an ecological system during the years 201... see more
Texture analysis is an objective physical examination of baked products and gives direct information on the product quality, oppositely to dough rheology tests what inform on the baking suitability of the flour, as raw material. It is the major criterion ... see more
Guendalina Barloggio,Lucius Tamm,Thomas Oberhänsli,Peter Nagel,Henryk Luka
This work, which is part of a project called Biocomes (www.biocomes.eu), focuses on the control of the cabbage moth Mamestra brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) through mass release of the egg parasitoid Telenomus sp. (Hymenoptera: Scelion... see more
Christopher Brock,Meike Oltmanns,Günter Leithold
Humus balance methods (HBM) are applied as tools for decision support and environmental impact assessment in arable farming. For reasons of applicability in practice, several HBM avoid a demand for comprehensive site data and are only sensitive to ma... see more
Henryk Luka,Guendalina Barloggio
In cabbage fields parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera) use the eggs or larvae of pest butterflies and moths for their own reproduction, ultimately killing them, playing an important role in the biological plant protection strategy. An efficient way to promote t... see more
Jan Moudrý jr.,Zuzana Jelínková,Jaroslav Bernas,Marek Kopecký,Petr Konvalina,Jan Moudrý,Jana Mrácková
As part of the study, growing of selected crops (strawberries, garlic, carrot) in conventional and organic farming systems in the Czech Republic was evaluated. For evaluation, the simplified LCA analysis was used. It is focused on the production of greenh... see more
Magdalena Lacko-Bartosova,Lucia Lacko-Bartosova
The aim of this work was to evaluate colour of noodles that were prepared from winter wheat grown in ecological and integrated arable farming systems after different forecrops with two levels of fertilization (fertilized and unfertilized) during the years... see more
Marc Talavera Roma,Josep M. Ninot Sugrañes,Adrià Solé Cantero
In the context of intense ecological and socioeconomic changes on Mediterranean regions, we performed semi – structured interviews to recuperate the traditional knowledge of plants. We analyse the reported species (and those added from the literature) to ... see more
Orsolya Papp
Characterisation of potato varieties in Hungary is based on conventional breeding and examination processes. Therefore organic growers need experimental data about the performance of new multi-resistant potato varieties under organic conditions. In order ... see more
András Jung,Boglárka Hegedüs,Dóra Drexler
Field spectroscopy performs non-destructive chemical measurements without manipulating the measured materials, while providing the possibility of a broad spatial overview and a high temporal flexibility of measurements. High-resolution remote sensing appl... see more
M. Nasr Esfahani,Asghar Mohsenzade,Kermani N. Abbasi
Sugar beet cyst nematode (SBCN), Hederodera schachtii Schmidt. 1871, marked as one of the most damaging disease of sugar beet fields worldwide. Non chemical controls measures were carried out, using organic fertilizers including farm, poultry and green ma... see more
Jukka Kivelä
Meat and bone meal (MBM) as a by-product from meat industry, is an important source for recycling of N and P. It contains about 8 % N, 5 % P, 1 % K and 10 % Ca. Field experiments were carried out for testing fertilization effect o... see more
Sebastian Lakner,Gunnar Breustedt
The following article summarizes the findings of 30 studies on efficiency and productivity of organic farming systems. In a lot of studies organic farms shows a lower productivity than conventional farms, however, we cannot find evidence for a systematic ... see more
Franziska Götze,Stefan Mann,Ali Ferjani,Andreas Kohler,Thomas Heckelei
The market share of organic food in Switzerland is high compared with that in other European countries, and has grown notably in recent years. However, little is known about why the market share of certain organic food products is higher than that of othe... see more
Konstantinos Koutis
In recent years, greek consumers expressed interest for wheat, quality bakery products, organically produced from traditional varieties and also from "ancient" or "hulled" wheat, particularly einkorn, emmer, or spelta. To meet the growing demand of farmer... see more
Susanne Kummer,Petra Hirner,Rebecka Milestad
Local food systems typically only involve a small amount of farmers and consumers. To analyse attempts to scale up local organic food systems, we explored a box scheme in Austria that had grown significantly, and interviewed 19 supplying farmers. Int... see more
Charles Francis,Anna Marie Nicolaysen,Suzanne Morse,Geir Lieblein,Tor Arvid Breland
Open-ended cases present students with learning situations where a particular dilemma on the farm or in the community food system has not been resolved. With minimal but focused prior preparations, students interview farmers and food system stakeholders t... see more
Éva Hunyadi Borbélyné,Mihály Földi
This paper summarizes research results on organic soya production conducted at three ÖMKi on-farm sites in 2014 in Hungary. Trial sites were located in West-Transdanubia (Tornyiszentmiklós) and the East-Hungarian Plain (Földes and Hajdúböszörmény). Object... see more
Mihaly Földi,Dóra Drexler
Among various factors affecting the cultivation of organic cereals, the biological basis is one of the most important ones. Within organic arable cropping the cash crop grown on the largest surface in Hungary is common wheat (Triticum aestivum). 2012-2015... see more
Eva Erhart,Harald Schmid,Kurt-Jürgen Hülsbergen,Wilfried Hartl
Soil organic matter plays a key role for soil quality and holds a large carbon sequestration potential. Compost fertilization is a way to increase soil organic matter content. Here, humus, nitrogen and energy balances and greenhouse gas emissions were cal... see more