Field trip to Lönnstorp
Join us at SLU’s Lönnstorp field station, a key site for research on future cropping systems. Here, ongoing field trials explore innovations such as strip cropping in winter oilseed rape and the potential of field cress as a new oil crop for Sweden.
Station manager Johannes Albertsson will welcome us to SLU’s field station in Lönnstorp. Founded in 1969, Lönnstorp comprises 60 hectares of conventionally and 18 ha of organically managed land, which is used for field trials by scientists, companies, institutes and students to test innovative cropping systems, grow new crops or collect samples.
Lönnstorp is also one of nine field research stations, which together form SITES (Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science), that provides data and field access for research across climatic zones. We will have the opportunity to visit an ongoing strip cropping trial including winter oilseed rape and hear about research on field cress (Lepidium campestre) - a crop that is currently being tested as an alternative oil crop in Sweden. Both wild and domesticated field cress will be demonstrated to highlight their differences in biomass and other crop characteristics.
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