Exploring grapevine canopy management: effects of removing main leaves or lateral shoots before flowering
Milk MIR Spectra and Machine Learning to Verify Herbage Proportion in Dairy Herd Diets
Encouraging Participation in Community-Supported Agriculture Schemes With New Communication Strategy
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Exploring grapevine canopy management: effects of removing main leaves or lateral shoots before flowering
An Agroscope study shows that pre-flowering removal of the main leaves instead of the lateral shoots appears to be a viable practice with a moderate effect on both yield potential and must composition.
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BFH-HAFL, ETH Zurich, Utrecht University
Milk MIR Spectra and Machine Learning to Verify Herbage Proportion in Dairy Herd Diets
How to verify grassland-based feeding? An approach based on machine learning and milk mid-infrared (MIR) spectra acquired from routine milk quality testing may be the answer.
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Encouraging Participation in Community-Supported Agriculture Schemes With New Communication Strategy
Custom-tailored communication about the personal benefits in terms of nutrition and sustainable living provided by community-supported agriculture (CSA) can motivate a variety of non-members to join the scheme.
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Strengthening the Future of Communal Food Production in Switzerland
Community gardens, allotments and community-supported agriculture are key for sustainable, resilient food systems. Their future depends on political recognition and inter-institutional network support.
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Targeted Greening to Control Track-Side Vegetation
To reduce the use of herbicides to control track-side vegetation, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) commissioned Agroscope and HEPIA to develop a low-growing plant mix for the track area.
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Swiss Agricultural Policy and its Impact on Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from Agriculture
Every two years, the Biennial Transparency Report (BTR) highlights advances in climate mitigation and climate adaptation. Agricultural policy developments and their implications for agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are a key topic.
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Goat Husbandry: Standard Values for Feed Intake and Nutrient Excretion Adjusted
Standard values for livestock feed intake and excretion are essential for proper farm fertilisation planning and assessment of the farm’s nutrient balance. Agroscope adjusted the standard values for goats with the aim of improving nutrient-flow assessment.
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The Future Use of Switzerland’s Organic Soils
Agroscope has compiled a new map of Switzerland’s organic soils, which forms the basis for developing a strategy for managing these soils.
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Current Suisse-Bilanz Tool as an Environmental Indicator: Good for Phosphorus, Unsuitable for Nitrogen
An Agroscope study shows that the Suisse-Bilanz nutrient-balance calculation tool could serve as an environmental indicator for sustainable nutrient use – but only for phosphorus, not for nitrogen.
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Crude Protein and Phosphorus Levels in Poultry Feed – a Key to High Resource Efficiency
Commercial poultry farming has grown considerably in recent years. This study aims to analyse its protein supply and identify potential for optimising phosphorus utilisation and feed efficiency.
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Labels on Plant-Based Milk Alternatives: What’s On and In the Packaging?
An Agroscope study gives an overview of front-of-pack labels on the packaging of 66 plant-based milk alternatives (hereafter referred to as milk alternatives) available in Swiss supermarkets. It also examines whether the information on the labels accurately reflects product properties.
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Sheep Husbandry: Feed Intake and Nutrient Excretion Guidelines Adjusted
Standard values for livestock feed intake and excretion are essential for proper farm fertilisation planning and assessment of the farm’s nutrient balance. Agroscope adjusted the standard values for sheep with the aim of improving nutrient-flow assessment.
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Agroscope, FiBL, Qualitas AG, 6300 Zug
A1/A2 Genetic Background of Cows, But Not Their Horn Status, Influences Milk Protein Digestion
The influence of horn status and the genetic variant of the (A1/A2) β-Casein milk protein on milk quality and digestion is the subject of much debate. This study shows that the milk of cows with a genetic difference in β-Casein is digested slightly differently in the human stomach, but that horn status has no effect…
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Foliar Fertilisation in Viticulture: Comparison of Two Mineral Fertilisers
Foliar fertilisation around veraison improves grape nitrogen levels without affecting vigour. A trial shows that the fertilisers ‘Safe N 300’ and ‘Folur’ effectively increase assimilable nitrogen in the grape must; however, their degree of effectiveness depends on climatic conditions.
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Swiss Agriculture is Ageing – What Does This Mean for the Future?
Farm managers are getting older and older on average. Although this trend poses challenges for the Swiss agricultural sector, it also offers opportunities.
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Fodder Trees: a Supplementary Forage Resource for Livestock
Summer droughts reduce grassland yields and forage quality. More drought-resistant than herbaceous species, certain trees can provide supplementary forage of good nutritional value in summer. Increasingly intense summer droughts have led to a sharp decline in the yields and nutritional value of grassland forages. Producing sufficient supplies of quality forage has therefore become a genuine…
