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Organic farming - crop rotations and weed control. Mechanical weed control and prevention in cereals and oil seed rape. Population dynamics of weeds, weed seed production and soil seed reserve.

Weed control in organic farming is the most important part of my work. An important part is the experiment with organic crop rotations for cereal production . I am responsible for the organic research area of 25 ha. at Research Centre Flakkebjerg, including crop rotation, choice of varieties, fertilisation, catch crops, strategies for prevention and control of pests, diseases and weeds. I conduct experiments with prevention and control of weeds in cereals and oil seed rape. My work include weed seed production and the soil seed reserve, and I have participated in developing the population dynamic model FieldWeeds . My work was earlier concentrated on growing malting barley without the use of pesticides and weed seed production with reduced doses of herbicides.

Member of:

European Weed Research Society (EWRS)

EWRS working group on Weed Seed Germination and Early Growth

EWRS working group on Physical Weed Control

International Society of Organic Agriculture Research

ISOFAR working group for long-term experiments