This week our team worked hard to sample the yield component samples and harvest the plot yields of our long-term biochar experiments in Helsinki.
As the growing season in Helsinki was very dry, the moisture retention capacity of differently activated biochars had excellent chances to be tested. Indeed, there seemed to be promising results on yield formation, but we can tell more only after full yield component analysis as well as statistical testing. This data is part of doctoral thesis of Samuel Amoah, and we're grateful for all the team members participating this season in field experiments! A shout out to Karel Bartoš, Faiza Enam Binte, Dilruba Yasmin, Kira Eskelinen, Zannatul Ferdous, Cecilia Renvall, Jasmi Näsäkkälä and Laura Parvila! Next, we're getting into lab analysis!
The traditional AgriChar harvest party occurred this year just few hours after we got the samples to dryer and it coincided with the end of the research visit of Lii Lopp from University of Tartu. Thank you so much Lii for your time with us, we will miss you and look forward to future collaboration!
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