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Experimental Trials in Europe 2019 Edition Integrated Weed Management: PRActical Implementation and Solutions for Europe EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS IN EUROPE 2019 EDITION This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under agreement no. 727321 IWMPRAISE - H2020-SFS-2016-2017/H2020-SFS-2016-2 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 727321 Authors: Irache Garnica (INTIA - Instituto Navarro de Tecnologias e Infrastructuras Agroalimentarias) Juan Antonio Lezaun (INTIA - Instituto Navarro de Tecnologias e Infrastructuras Agroalimentarias) José Luis González-Andújar (CSIC - Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible) Verónica Pedraza Jimenez (CSIC - Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible) Daniele Antichi (Centre for Agri-environmental Research “Enrico Avanzi”, University of Pisa) Christian Frasconi (Centre for Agri-environmental Research “Enrico Avanzi”, University of Pisa) Stefano Carlesi (Institute of Life Sciences - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa) Mariateresa Lazzaro (Institute of Life Sciences - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa) Federico Leoni (Institute of Life Sciences - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa) Anna Camilla Moonen (Institute of Life Sciences - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa) Dylan Warren Raffa (Institute of Life Sciences - Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa) Valentina Mastretta (Horta srl) Matteo Ruggeri (Horta srl) Donato Loddo (Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection - National Research Council of Italy) Giovanni Laidò (ISEA srl) Robert Leskovšek (AIS - Agricultural Institute of Slovenia) Julie Klötzli (Agroscope) Andreas Lüscher (Agroscope) Urs Schaffner (Agroscope) Ludovic Bonin (ARVALIS - Institut du végétal) Anne Brunet (Chambre régionale d’agriculture Centre-Val de Loire) Dominique Tozza (Chambre régionale d’agriculture d’Ile de France) Julien Lecourt (NIAB EMR) Hilfred Huiting (Wageningen University & Research) Marleen Riemens (Wageningen University & Research) Rommie van der Weide (Wageningen University & Research) Bo Melander (Department of Agroecology - Aarhus University) Mette Sønderskov (Department of Agroecology - Aarhus University) Jens Erik Jensen (SEGES Landbrug & Fodevarer F.m.b.A.) Graphic layout: Danilo Calderaro (JDW) Editors: Francesca Chiarini (Veneto Agricoltura) Antonio De Zanche (Veneto Agricoltura) Language consultant: Andrew Bailey Publisher: Veneto Agricoltura - Agenzia veneta per l’innovazione nel settore primario Sezione Ricerca e Gestioni Agro-Forestali, Direttore Giustino Mezzalira Settore Ricerca Agraria, Dirigente Lorenzo Furlan Viale dell’Università, 14 - 35020 Legnaro (PD) - Italy Tel. +39 049 8293711 - Fax +39 049 8293815 e-mail: [email protected] www.venetoagricoltura.org This document may be reproduced, in whole or in part, on the condition that the source is acknowledged. EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS IN EUROPE 2019 EDITION CONTENTS The IWMPRAISE project 6 FRANCE 100 SPAIN 8 UNITED KINGDOM 128 ITALY 18 THE NETHERLANDS 130 SLOVENIA 76 DENMARK 136 SWITZERLAND 92 6 The IWMPRAISE project Integrated Weed Management: PRActical Implementation and Solutions for Europe Participating Countries Denmark Spain France Switzerland Italy The Netherlands Slovenia United Kingdom Partners 7 Integrated weed management is the future By adopting this categorical approach, it will be Integrated weed management (IWM) is the way possible to establish principles and develop IWM forward for sustainable and resilient agriculture. strategies that can be applied beyond the case IWMPRAISE is a Horizon 2020 project that will studies that the project deals with. support and promote the implementation of IWM The four scenarios that the project will focus on are: in Europe. This five-year project began in June 2017 - Annually drilled crops in narrow rows (e.g. small and will run until May 2022. It is coordinated by grain cereals, oilseed rape); professor Per Kudsk, Department of Agroecology, - Annually drilled crops in wide rows (e.g. maize, Aarhus University, Denmark. sunflowers, field vegetables); The project has been granted € 6.6m and aims - Perennial herbaceous crops (e.g. grasslands, to support and promote IWM in Europe. Weed alfalfa, red clover); management in Europe will become more - Perennial woody crops (e.g. pome fruits, citrus environmentally friendly if the concept of integrated fruits, olives). weed management takes better hold on European farms. The IWMPRAISE workgroup The project aims to demonstrate that IWM supports Overcoming barriers and spreading the word more sustainable cropping systems that are The project will review current socio-economic and resilient to external impacts and do not jeopardize agronomic barriers to the uptake of IWM in Europe profitability or the steady supply of food, feed and and develop and optimize novel alternative weed biomaterials. control methods. On this basis, the project will create The project consortium consists of 37 partners from a toolbox of validated IWM tools. The project will also eight different European countries and includes 11 design, demonstrate and assess the performance and leading universities and research institutes within the environmental and economic sustainability of context- area of weed management, 14 SMEs and industrial specific IWM strategies for the various management partners, and 12 advisory services and end-user scenarios that address the needs and concerns of end organisations. users and the public at large. A final output of the project will be to make the Focus on four scenarios results available to end users via online information, The project will develop, test and assess farmer field days, educational programmes, management strategies delivered across whole dissemination tools and knowledge exchange with cropping systems for four contrasting management rural development operational groups dealing with scenarios representing typical crops in Europe. IWM issues. 8 EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS IN EUROPE 2019 EDITION SPAIN Villava (Navarra) Córdoba (Andalucia) SPAIN 9 EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS IN SOUTHERN SPAIN The Institute for Sustainable Agriculture in Córdoba, main economic activities is olive-grove cultivation a centre of the Spanish National Research Council (Picual olive cultivar with farm size averaging 4-6 (IAS-CSIC), has established a collaboration with the ha), which is mostly based on soil management Virgen del Campo olive-growing cooperative for the by tillage or spontaneous grass cover crops. The next three years. This cooperative is located in the experimental farms belong to members of the olive- town of Cañete de las Torres, 60 km from Córdoba, growing cooperative and are located in Cañete de and it has more than 800 members. One of its las Torres. Address: For further information and guided visits Cooperative “Virgen del Campo” please contact: 2, Molino Street José Luis González and Verónica Pedraza Cañete del las Torres - 14660 Córdoba - Spain e-mail: [email protected] GPS coordinates: 37°52’02.4”N 4°19’17”W tel. +34 957 49 92 55 10 EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS IN EUROPE 2019 EDITION EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS IN NORTHERN SPAIN The Navarre Institute of Transfer and Innovation in the Agri-food Sector (INTIA) is a public company created by the Government of Navarra to help improve agricultural viability and sustainability, and to keep the rural environment alive while respecting the environment and offering quality food to society. It has signed agreements with many companies and it also has a number of partners comprising more than 48 cooperatives, 11,400 farmers and 1,138 ranchers. Many of these farmers are olive farmers whose groves are distributed in two different areas (average size 1-5 ha per farm): ‘La Ribera’, where the Empeltre olive cultivar is grown, and ‘La zona media’ where Arróniz is the most important olive cultivar. However, both areas are commonly managed by tillage or spontaneous cover crops, mainly composed of crucifers, and will be the experimental farms in the north of Spain. Address: For further information and guided visits 22, Serapio Huici Ave. (Edificio de Peritos) please contact: Villava - 31620 Navarra - Spain Juan Antonio Lezaun and Irache Garnica GPS coordinates: 42°49’43.7”N 1°36’46.2”W e-mail: [email protected] tel. +34 948 01 30 40 SPAIN 11 Spain is the country with the largest olive-growing affordable and manageable threshold. According area in the world (2.5 million ha) (MAPA, 2017a). to the IWMPRAISE goals, the study of perennial Andalusia, the southernmost region of Spain, has woody crops in Spain aims to develop, test and the biggest extension with 1,596,717 ha, mainly assess sustainable and cost-effective IWM strategies concentrated in the provinces of Jaen (582,497 for olive orchards in order to reduce dependence ha) and Cordoba (351,692 ha) (CAPDR, 2017). on chemical weed control without jeopardizing Nevertheless, regions of northern Spain, such as profitability or the steady supply of food, feed and Navarra, have seen their olive grove areas undergo biomaterials. The specific objectives are to evaluate great expansion in recent years and currently they the effects of different IWM practices on: 1) the have 8,446 ha (MAPA, 2017b). installation and development of weeds; 2) the soil; Given the broad geographical area that olive and 3) crop yields and quality. orchards cover, soil and weed management decisions are significantly influenced by location, climatic Materials and methods conditions, soil, topography and grower preferences The field study started in September 2018 and field (Huqi et
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