Grassland improvement and recultivation

High-quality forage has a significantly positive impact on farm profitability. This requires stable, resilient, harmonious, healthy, highly digestible, dock-free plant stands adapted to the climate and land use. To maintain grassland in good condition for optimal yields and to preserve valuable plant communities, ongoing maintenance is necessary. Extensive damage to the sward or general sparseness necessitates reseeding or renewal. Reseeding pursues the following objectives:

Increased quality and yield: more ingredients (energy and protein, minerals) and higher yield through the introduction of high-quality forage grasses and legumes adapted to the location and management intensity.

Improvement of sward density: Increasing the proportion of undergrowth grasses and species with high regenerative capacity to reduce weed infestation and feed contamination, as well as for better load-bearing capacity and resistance to grazing animals and machinery.

The ideal time for reseeding depends on the location and climatic conditions. Generally, reseeding in spring or late summer is recommended. To achieve sustainable results, it is important that the seed mixture is tailored to the specific type of use and that varieties are established that exhibit good persistence, winter hardiness, tolerance to cutting, and weed suppression.

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Grassland damage and weed control

Grassland damage and yield depressions can be caused by a wide variety of factors. Besides suboptimal management, climatic factors such as droughts or animal pests can also lead to negative changes in the vegetation cover and plant composition. If important forage plants disappear, the stand becomes patchy, and undesirable grasses and herbs can establish themselves in the resulting gaps. The nutritional value of these filler plants is usually very low, and animals either don't eat them or only eat them reluctantly. In addition to native weeds and unwanted grasses such as broadleaf dock and meadow grass, some toxic neophytes are also increasingly becoming a problem.

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{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_greenland/Greenland improvement/2_2013_Sorrel_Root_Poetsch.pdf"}

{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources in grassland/Grassland improvement/2_2015_Neophytes_and_Poisonous Plants_Winter Conference.pdf"}

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Recultivation of alpine pastures

When revegetating pastureland at mid-elevations (e.g., as part of ski slope construction, alpine pasture revitalization, and forest grazing separation projects), problems repeatedly arise that impair the success of the implemented measures. Even improvements to existing pastureland yield limited results without the use of appropriate seeding techniques and mixtures. To avoid recultivation errors and thus create stable, productive pastureland, a number of measures must be considered, ranging from site preparation and revegetation to proper maintenance management.

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Site-appropriate greening in high altitudes

Over the past twenty-five years, the technology for revegetation at high altitudes in the Austrian Alps has developed rapidly. The excavator has replaced the bulldozer, and the preservation and reuse of existing vegetation has become commonplace in many areas. At the beginning of the 1990s, seeds of site-appropriate subalpine and alpine species were unavailable. Now, twenty-four different species are propagated on a large scale and offered in sufficient quantities. The modern state of the art developed from these possibilities is standard practice in most federal states. However, extreme site conditions and alternative objectives still present challenges that require new strategies and solutions, supported by scientific research.

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{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/2_2012_The_perfect_sleeping_seed.pdf"}

{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/2_2010_The_correct_fertilization_of_ski_pistes.pdf"}

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Greening of special sites

In addition to commercial and extensive grassland, grassland communities can also be newly established in landscaping projects or on special sites. The Department of Vegetation Management in the Alpine Region researches mixture compositions and establishment techniques for a wide variety of locations. This report highlights green roofs and parking lot greening, roadside verges and embankments, as well as greening in fruit and wine growing. Such greening systems, adapted to specific conditions, are generally low-maintenance, make a significant contribution to the preservation and promotion of biodiversity, and can prevent soil erosion.

 

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{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources in grassland/Grassland improvement/2_2014_Basic_railway_systems.pdf"}

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agriculture

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{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/Agriculture/43_2014_news_from_the_state_organization_huss-1.pdf"}

{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/Agriculture/43_2011_new_virus-related_disease patterns_oil_pumpkin.pdf"}

{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/Agriculture/43_2011_pseudomonas_viridiflava_oellkuerbis.pdf"}

{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/Agriculture/43_2011_diseases_pests_oil_pumpkin_cultivation.pdf"}

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{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/Agriculture/43_2011_lambach_potato_illnesses.pdf"}

{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/Arable farming/43_2011_moarhof_potato diseases.pdf"}

{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/Arable farming/43_2011_potato_moarhof.pdf"}

{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/Agriculture/43_2011_potato_lambach.pdf"}

{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/Agriculture/43_2014_glimmer_of_hope_for_organic_wheat_huss.pdf"}

{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/Agriculture/43_2011_mass occurrence_of_thistle butterfly.pdf"}

{rsfiles path="Research reports/Environmental resources_in_grassland/Grassland improvement/Agriculture/43_2014_huss_fusarium_aehrenverbraeunung_der_gerste.pdf"}

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