Legumes grown in crop rotations have positive agronomic and economic impacts that enhance the sustainability of European cropping systems (Peoples et al., 2009). However, legume crops play a decreasing role in European crop rotations despite their positive rotational effects (Zander et al., submitted). The common crop-level perception neglect rotational aspects. Quantifying the rotational impacts of legumes is challenging, since crop rotations are generally simplified in European farming practice. Therefore, a modelling approach is proposed for the systematic generation and evaluation of agronomically sound crop rotations. The objectives are i) to describe the modelling approach and ii) present selected findings from the application in the case study regions Västra Götaland (VG, Sweden), Eastern Scotland (ES), Brandenburg (BB, Germany), Sud-Muntenia (SM, Romania) and Calabria (C, Italy). A synthesis of the findings is provided by Stoddard et al. (2014).
THE LEGUME FUTURES ROTATION GENERATOR I. GENERATION AND EVALUATION OF ROTATIONS
MONTI, Michele;
2014-01-01
Abstract
Legumes grown in crop rotations have positive agronomic and economic impacts that enhance the sustainability of European cropping systems (Peoples et al., 2009). However, legume crops play a decreasing role in European crop rotations despite their positive rotational effects (Zander et al., submitted). The common crop-level perception neglect rotational aspects. Quantifying the rotational impacts of legumes is challenging, since crop rotations are generally simplified in European farming practice. Therefore, a modelling approach is proposed for the systematic generation and evaluation of agronomically sound crop rotations. The objectives are i) to describe the modelling approach and ii) present selected findings from the application in the case study regions Västra Götaland (VG, Sweden), Eastern Scotland (ES), Brandenburg (BB, Germany), Sud-Muntenia (SM, Romania) and Calabria (C, Italy). A synthesis of the findings is provided by Stoddard et al. (2014).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
