Excalibur partners carry out field activities in Italy
Maria Grazia Tommasini (CRPV), Giovanni L’ Abate and Lorenzo D’Avino (CREA) performed field activities in Italian fields. The aim of the activities was to define soil profile and collect soil samples of 6 Italian soils, where field trials will start next spring within Excalibur project on 3 different crops – strawberry, tomato and apple.
Assessing color of a soil layer by Munsell charts in organic arable land
Describing soil profile in Italian apple orchard
Different soil layer in profile
Earthworm hand sorting in apple orchard
Preparing fixed earthworms for expedition to London National History Museum
Pit excavation in German organic apple orchard
Pedologic survey in IPM apple orchard
Mapping soil variability by gamma ray spectrometer in apple organic orchard
Kob apple
Irrigated organic strawberry fields in a farm involved in the project
Integrated greenhouse Italian fields, with “harvest bike”
Extraction of microarthropods by Berlese funnels
Pit 1 in what will be an integrated pest management tomato field
Pedological surveys by means of The Mole spectrometer in future strawberry field
Sampling for soil thin section
Pedological survey during COVID period
Preparing fixed nematodes for expedition to Inhort
Soil profile 4 in organic apple orchard
App org it digitalized
Mapping soil variability by gamma ray spectrometer in apple organic orchard
