creators_name: Sarapatka, Borivoj
creators_name: Kouril, Milan
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2007-03-12
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:34:39
metadata_visibility: show
title: Monitoring Soil Characteristics in Organic Farming: A Comparison of Field vs. Laboratory Methods
ispublished: pub
subjects: 1soilqual
full_text_status: public
keywords: soil, quality, chemical and biological properties
abstract: Soil quality plays a key role in organic farming. In practice its evaluation is not so simple because there are many indicators that could be used. In our research we used simple field methods (soil quality test kit) and compared the data with traditional evaluation used in the laboratory.
date: 2007
date_type: published
refereed: yes
citation: Sarapatka, Borivoj and Kouril, Milan (2007) Monitoring Soil Characteristics in Organic Farming: A Comparison of Field vs. Laboratory Methods. 3rd QLIF Congress: Improving Sustainability in Organic and Low Input Food Production Systems, University of Hohenheim, Germany, March 20-23, 2007.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/9746/1/Sarapatka-Kouril-2007-Monitoring.pdf