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Moving Meadow
Project
Project code: EIP-Agri-BW-2023-BLELVKW
Contract period: 01.01.2023
- 31.12.2025
Budget: 137,200 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: soil, landscape element/diversity, climate change
The moving meadow is a farming System that promotes nature Conservation on a large scale and at the same time uses it to increase the productivity of e.g. food in the following years. These goals are achieved by alternating Strip cultivation, with alternating 36 meter wide field Strips and 18 meter wide meadow Strips. The meadow Strips can be sown at the beginning with clover-grass seed at double row spacing and native plant species are established in the gaps by transferring mulch from speciec rieh meadows. The meadow growth can be transported away as hay or silage as usual, or alternatively transported as transfer mulch with the forage harvester to the adjacent field Strip in order to increase the humus content there. Within four years, the meadow strips are broken up on one side and re-seeded on the other side so that there is no conversion to permanent grassland. Thus, the meadow strips move through a large field over the years and serve the creatures as a source of food and retreat in the immediate vicinity of the field strips.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
- Agroecology
- Climate Change
