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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Location Raiffeisenhaus Terlan & Online

Departments CC Plant Health

Contact planthealth@unibz.it

27 May 2022 08:30-12:30

South Tyrolean Soil Symposium

Humus in agricultural soil

Location Raiffeisenhaus Terlan & Online

Departments CC Plant Health

Contact planthealth@unibz.it

PROGRAMME

08:00 Registration Participants

08:30 Greetings & Introduction
Arnold Schuler, Provincial Councillor for Agriculture, Forestry, Tourism
and Civil Protection
Michael Oberhuber, Director Experimental Centre Laimburg
Paolo Lugli, Rector of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

09:00 Soil science in South Tyrol - yesterday and today
Martin Thalheimer, Experimental Centre Laimburg

09:30 Humus and its functions in agricultural ecosystems
Christopher Poeplau, Thünen Institute, Braunschweig

10:15 Coffee break

10:45 Humus management in climate change
Walter Wenzel, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna

11:30 Panel discussion "Soils, humus, carbon farming: Opportunity for South Tyrol?"
Tanja Mimmo, Free University of Bolzano (moderator)
Christopher Poeplau, Thünen Institute
Walter Wenzel, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna
Georg Niedrist, Eurac Research
Thomas Hafner, Organic farmer
Martin Thalheimer, Experimental Centre Laimburg

12:30 End of the conference

The event will be held in german.