Two new organic projects at AU Foulum focus on sustainable slaughter pig production with 100% locally produced feed as well as meat quality and shelf life.

An EU project, including participants from Aarhus University, is going to develop a new decision tool that can help pig producers reduce the prevalence of tail bites on their farm.

Aarhus University leads a new GUDP project (KlimaKS) which will contribute with new tools to help the farmer in his efforts to prevent health problems in dairy cows. This will be beneficial to the cows’ welfare, the farmer’s economy and not least the climate.

Former agrobiology student Niels Frederik Vestergård will recieve this year's IdaGaard Foundation's thesis award for his final thesis on the status of new resistance to succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors in Septoria in Denmark and Sweden.

Through research and education, the Faculty of Technical Sciences will continue to create fertile ground for an even greener and even more digital transformation of society. This is part of the main message in the strategy, which is now in place, and which in the years up to 2025 will set the direction for the faculty.

A previously abandoned patent from Aarhus University got new life in the hands of two visionary food enthusiasts, and together they started a company that is now based in Agro Food Park, north of Aarhus. IsoFirms dreams of fighting obesity with a food ingredient extracted from the stevia plant - and the entrepreneurial program EIT Food Seedbed at Aarhus University has supported them in their market entry.

A new project supported by the Green Development and Demonstration Program (GUDP) will ensure greater knowledge about the effects of biopesticides and optimize their use in order to replace the synthetic pesticides used in the potted plant industry. The project will support the green transition within the entire horticultural industry, and will thus help to secure the future of potted plant production and meet the demand for pesticide-free plants.

A new project supported by the Green Development and Demonstration Program (GUDP) will develop filter systems to reduce unwanted phosphorus loss to the aquatic environment by rewetting peatland soils, which could ultimately reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by 450,000 tons of CO2 equivalents per year.

A new project supported by the Green Development and Demonstration Program (GUDP) will develop and investigate alternative solutions for stopping the growth of potatoes, which will also contribute to the green transformation of agriculture.

New biorefining technologies make it possible to extract protein from green biomass in a quality that allows the grass protein to replace imported soy protein in compound feeds, and at the same time ensure a number of environmental benefits. However, what biotechnological and economic challenges do we need to overcome in order to create value around the utilization of green biomass in Denmark? A new report from Aarhus University synthesizes the current knowledge in the field.

New biosensor technology shows the potential of becoming a rapid, non-invasive and cost efficient tool for evaluating freshness of several types of fish products, a research collaboration with participation from Aarhus University concludes. This can assist with the reduction of food waste and support the sustainability of the fish industry.

A new research project will use renewable energy from local, privately owned wind turbines to improve the efficiency of Danish biogas production at large scale. The target is a 100 per cent green gas grid.

Drones and artificial intelligence are used in the Innovation Fund project ReDoCO2 to develop a decision-making tool for determining which peatland soils can provide the greatest climate gain with lower greenhouse gas emissions. The tool contributes to the climate goal of reducing greenhouse gases and the green transition of agriculture.

New cereals with a health-promoting effect may in the future help to prevent obesity and diabetes. At this year's virtual Plantekongres, you have the opportunity to learn about how researchers have developed a new grain variety through special breeding techniques, as well as hear more about the health-promoting possibilities in the cereal crops of the future.

With Carbon Farming's various cultivation initiatives, you can remove CO2 from the atmosphere and achieve carbon storage in plants and soil. At this year's virtual Plantekongres, you have the opportunity to learn more about what Carbon Farming is, how to achieve carbon storage and not least, carbon in an EU perspective.

Biochar increases carbon storage in the soil and can also affect the soil's fertility and greenhouse gas emissions. At this year's virtual Plantekongres, you have the opportunity to learn more about what Biochar is, what effect it has on the build up of carbon in the soil, and how it acts as a climate tool.

With Carbon Farming, the goal is to remove CO2 from the atmosphere through targeted cultivation measures and achieve carbon storage in plants and soil. At this year's virtual Plantekongres, you have the opportunity to learn more about what Carbon Farming is, how to achieve carbon storage and not least, how to document the effect via the MRV concept.

Plant residues are one of the sources of nitrous oxide in agriculture, in fact they account for approx. 10% of the total emission of nitrous oxide from Danish agriculture. At this year's virtual Plantekongres, you have the opportunity to become wiser about the importance of plant residues and nitrous oxide emissions. Results from the project ResidueGas show, that there is a big difference between different types of plant residues.

It is becoming increasingly urgent to find crops that are resilient to climate changes. The phrase climate changes reflect many stress factors, and can e.g. consist of a combination of factors such as increased temperatures, drought and changes in the composition of the atmosphere. But how do crops respond to this type of stress combinations? What happens when wheat, the world's most important crop, is exposed to more than one type of stress? Lamis Abdelhakim from the Department of Food Science, Aarhus University, has investigated this as part of her Ph.D. studies.

Researchers from the Department of Agroecology have received a grant of almost DKK 3 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a new project named “CoreEEs”. The project will support the green transition of agriculture by studying enzyme activity and the micro-biological compositions in the soil to find future ways to produce more biomass with lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Aarhus University is one of the partners in an EU project, R4D (Resilience for Dairy), aiming at contributing to the social, economic and environmental development of European milk production.