The European Association of mountain areas (EuroMontana) has published a booklet of good management practices in mountain grasslands, gathered across 18 European countries, through OREKA MENDIAN, a seven-year project funded by the European...
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The report on the topic “The effectiveness of policies promoting sustainable permanent grassland across five European countries (representing five biogeographic regions)” – developed under the Task 4.1c of the SUPER-G project – is now available...
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In mid January 2021, there was a 1st Joint Conference of the EAAP Mountain Livestock Farming Group & FAO-CIHEAM Mountain Pastures Sub-Network on the topic “Mountains are agroecosystems for people“. On page 12 there is an article...
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SUPER-G project partners from the Chambres d’agriculture de Normandie recently launched an article, related with the beginning of grazing season, in Normandy local press, about the project. After the heavy rainfall of the last few months...
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The project was featured in an article in the annual magazine AGROTEJO. AGROTEJO – União Agrícola do Norte do Vale do Tejo is a non-profit Portuguese association of farmers, whose main area of focus is the North of the Tagus Valley: To...
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Back in September, The SUPER-G Northern England farm network held a webinar with the UK Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) Beef and Lamb and ADAS. During the webinar we heard from James Drummond from Lemmington Hill Head farm...
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British Society of Animal Science held a webinar regarding the Precision Livestock Farming and Sensing Technology in Extensive Grassland Systems. The first part of the webinar was held on the 17th November, was chaired by Ilan Halachmi and...
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Many meadow and pasture habitats and their plant species are currently highly endangered. One of such habitat are species-rich, extensively used, lowland, semi-natural Arrhenatherion elatioris meadows (code 6510 in the NATURA 2000 network). These...
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Paul Newell Price presented our recent assessment of threats to permanent grassland across Europe. We carried out a survey among agronomists, ecologists, soil scientists, foresters and agri-environmental consultants to assess the threats for...
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The 21st EGF Symposium “Sensing – New Insights into Grassland Science and Practice” will be held between May 17th and 19th of 2021. The online event organized by the University of Kassel (Germany) will be filled with scientific programs and...
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Professor Piotr Stypiński, a member of the Faculty of Agriculture and Biology at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, a project partner, has been interviewed about SUPER-G, for this month’s polish agriculture magazine (TPR- Tygodnik...
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Our colleagues at SLU published, this month, an article in the 4th issue of the magazine Svenska Vallbrev 2020 produced by the Swedish Grassland Society. The article presents the SUPER-G project to about 2000 members, mainly farmers, advisors and...
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