Modern high-performance cultivars need fertile soils and have high nitrogen requirements in particular. FiBL, Agroscope and Agridea tested little-used cereal crops under less intensive conditions and investigated how a high level of quality can be ensured all the way from crop production to milling and to the bakeries.
The production of organic bread wheat is almost exclusively reliant on modern wheat cultivars, as they deliver the protein contents demanded in the marketplace. This requires careful management of the crop plants’ nitrogen supply. In their joint four-year Raphaël Charles
Links
fibl.org: Project "CerQual" in the FiBL project database
