We at AgriChar
research group have successfully started the harvest season of 2018 from our
long-term field experiments. The weather today was nice and sunny and yield of oats and barley were quite fine
irrespective of the ‘Drought of a Decade’.
The peas were not doing so good,
after being attacked by geese during the Midsummer weekend, they were, much to
our surprise, able to regrow all the leaves eaten and form pods, but then the pigeons finished off what was left from the geese.
When some
of our group members are working on the fields in Finland, others are networking and reporting
their latest results on the other side of the globe. Namely, three of our
doctoral students, Mina, Jure and Subin are presenting at the 21st World Congress of Soil Science in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
This event brings together around
7000 soil enthusiasts from around the world, among them also hundreds of
biochar experts.
If you are in Brazil, make sure not to miss AgriChar
presentations:
Tomorrow,
on August 14 at 1:50 PM, Mina Kiani will present her poster on impacts of lake sediment reuse on plant
growth and soil properties in the field. Toten 42.
Next, on
August 16 at 1:30 PM, Subin Kalu answers the question, to what extent spruce biochar acts as slow-release long-term fertilizer
if applied to nutrient poor sandy soil. Toten 38
Those who
are interested about effects of softwood biochars
on soil biota in boreal soils, would not want to miss Jure Zrim’s presentation
on August 16, at 2:20 PM. Toten 37.
