{Tool} ROTOR: organic crop rotation planner. Issuing Organisation(s): ZALF - Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research. (2007)
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ROTOR is a long-term planning tool at field level of organic crop rotations for farmers and advisors. The tool assists in the rotation planning for food and fodder provision, and considers furthermore weed management, phytosanitary restrictions in the rotation, helping to maximise N-fixation by legumes and to avoid N-losses by leaching. The newest version includes new crops such as soybean and new management options.
ROTOR operates with two interfaces for data entry form and report of results. Basic and advanced data entry is possible. For a basic query site characteristics, the selection of crop sequences and organic fertilizers is needed. The query can be refined through the modification of advanced settings concerning, yield, manure type, soil condition, legume proportion, cover crops, cultivation breaks, weed control and other.
Results can be used to compare between different crop rotation options aiming at ensuring provisioning, N supply, pest, disease and weed control.
A tool manual explains briefly how to use the planning tool and how to interpret the results.
To go to ROTOR choose „Software for organic agriculture" from the „Software-Downloads“. You will find ROTOR in the drop-down list.
Restricted access: Password needed to open the tool, ask Johann Bachinger: jbachinger@zalf.de
EPrint Type: | Practice tool |
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Teaser: | Optimize your crop rotations to keep nutrients and weeds under control! |
What problem does the tool address?: | Insufficient N-supply, decrease of humus, weeds through mismanagement of the crop |
What solution does the tool offer?: | Long-term planning at field level to enhance nutrient supply and regulate weeds and diseases |
Country: | Germany |
Type of Practice Tool: | Calculation tools |
Theme: | Nutrient management, Pest and disease control, Weed management |
Keywords: | arable farming, crop rotation, diagnostic tool, disease control, nitrogen fixation, nutrient management, pest control, weed management |
Keywords: | arable farming, crop rotation, plant disease control, measuring instruments, monitoring and evaluation, nitrogen fixation, nutrient management, pest control, weed management, weed control |
Agrovoc keywords: | Language Value URI English arable farming http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_36528 English crop rotation http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6662 English monitoring and evaluation http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_bea12d1e English measuring instruments http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_12457 English plant disease control http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5960 English nitrogen fixation http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5196 English nutrient management http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_330697 English pest control http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_5726 English weed control http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8345 |
Subjects: | Crop husbandry > Crop health, quality, protection Crop husbandry > Weed management Farming Systems > Farm nutrient management |
Research affiliation: | European Union > Horizon 2020 > OK-Net Arable > Selected tools European Union > Horizon 2020 > OK-Net Arable European Union > Organic Farm Knowledge |
Related Links: | http://www.zalf.de, http://beras.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/new-farming-guidelines.pdf, http://www.zalf.de/de/forschung_lehre/software_downloads/Documents/oekolandbau/rotor/Handbuch_ROTOR.pdf, https://organic-farmknowledge.org/tool/30580 |
Project ID: | ofk |
Deposited By: | Rasmussen, Ilse Ankjær |
ID Code: | 30580 |
Deposited On: | 04 Jan 2017 20:30 |
Last Modified: | 02 May 2024 10:31 |
Document Language: | English |
Status: | Published |
Additional Publishing Information: | on the website, go to "Software for Organic Agriculture" to find the tool. Restricted access: Password needed to open the tool, ask Johann Bachinger: jbachinger@zalf.de |
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