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DARCOFenews was issued as an electronic email-newsletter until June 2008. The newsletter brought articles on current Danish research in organic food and farming with a frequency based on progress in the DARCOF research projects. Articles in previous newsletters are accessible in the archive below. Subscription is no longer possible.

• The Danish organic pork chain
• New research on organic food, metabolites and health
• Links between policy and organic farming in Europe
  
  
  
  
  

December 2006

• Forage may partly replace supplementary feed for laying hens
• Leaf stripe resistance of spring barley cultivars
• New articles and research on odor and quality of organic pig meat
  
  
  

November 2006

• Resistant barley varieties may facilitate control of Ramularia leaf spot
  
• Book on Danish research in organic fod and farming 2000-2005
  

During 2003 to 2006 DARCOFenews was issued as a web-based newsletter with 3-4 issues annually. These issues are accessible below.

March 2006

• Join the Organic Congress on 30.-31. of May 2006
  
• Topic 1: Towards a sustainable Europe
  
• Topic 2: Improving quality of crops, soil and environment
  
• Topic 3: Animal husbandry - health, welfare and food quality
  
• Topic 4: Consuming organics
  
• Founding of a European Consortium for Organic Animal Breeding (Eco-AB)
  
• Satellite meetings and symposia at the organic congress 2006
  
• Globalisation as a challenge or opportunity for organic farming
  
  

September 2005

• Chicory root improves the taste and odour of organic pork
  
• Differences in trace element content between organic and conventional milk
  
• Growing bargain power of supermarkets presses organic vegetable producers
  
• Increased yield and yield stability in variety mixtures of spring barley
  
• Low nitrogen manuring increased yield in high-density organic apple production
  
• Grass cover retained by nose-ringing of outdoor sows only partially reduces the risk of N leaching
  
• Significance of seed-borne Ascochyta on pea and test of management strategies
  
  

• Increased phytoestrogen content in organic milk and the biological importance
  
• Catch crops have little effect on P and K availability of depleted soils
  
• Outdoor production of slaughterpigs requires an optimized management to mitigate nitrogen pollution
  
• Soil aggregation - a matter of proper management
  
• New organic growing system reduces losses of nutrients
  
• Do organic farmers produce good nature quality
  

• Organic diet enhanced the health of rats
• Low temperature handling will delay but not hinder ochratoxin A formation in wet grain
• Ridge planting of maize shows promising yield increase
• Three new systems for recycling of urban organic waste to agriculture
• Subsoil loosening eliminated plough pan but had variable effect on crop yield
• High damage potential of seed-borne spot blotch in organically grown spring barley in Denmark
• Intercropping pea with barley reduces Ascochyta blight on pea
• High yield and low N leaching with barley as a green crop for silage after grass-clover
• Leaching of organic N and C after cultivating grass-clover pastures

• Feeding with lupines reduces the amount of skatole in organic pigs
• Landscape and nature quality in the development and profiling of organic farming
• Nitrogen and weeds determine crop yields in arable organic crop rotations
• Spread of salmonella bacteria in organic pigs
• Common Couch-grass control with less tillage
• Simulating crop production and nitrate leaching losses from organic arable crop production
• Grazing and nitrogen fertilisation increases nitrous oxide emissions from grasslands
• Molecular diagnostic methods can prevent unnecessary rejection of organic seed lots
• Crop rotation limits Canada thistle, but not Couch-grass or annual weeds

• Higher antioxidant content in organic milk than in conventional milk
• Low nitrate leaching from long-term grass-clover
• Lupine grows well where pea is destroyed by soil borne diseases
• Nitrate leaching in organic arable crop rotations
• Band steaming reduces laborious hand weeding in vegetables
• Soil organic carbon as an indicator of soil quality
• Contamination of oilseed rape varieties by pollen and seeds
• Broilers reduce the apple sawfly population in organic apple growing
• Threshold levels for seed borne diseases in organic cereals
• New fungicides for apple scab control in organic growing
• Major congress on Organic Farming, Food Quality and Human Health

• Composting rapidly degrades DNA from genetically modified plants
• Susceptibility of spelt to Ochratoxin A producing fungi
• Orchard testing of new, alternative fungicides against apple scab
• Spatial variation in the localization of Danish organic farms
• Inter-row subsoiling increases marketable yield in potatoes
• Impact of new technologies and changes in legislation on the income in organic farming
• Control of apple scab by use of the plants own defence mechanisms
• Revision of organic rules in EU

April 2004

• Efficient use of grassland nitrogen
• Crop cover improves the N status in vegetable crop rotations
• Soil treatments and rootstocks for organic apple production
• New methods for mapping of urine patches in pastures
• Critical evaluation of the Kemink Exact Soil Management System and its components
• Emission of nitrous oxide from grass-clover swards is largely unaffected by recently fixed N2
  

• New strategy for Danish research in organic farming
• Quality of organic wheat from different cropping systems
  
• Non-poisonous means for reducing rodent pest problems
• Lower nitrogen supply resulted in a better fruit quality
• Soil quality and the development of organic farming
  

September 2003

• Coexisting with genetically modified oilseed rape
• Soil management and predator activity
• Compacted subsoils in organic farming
• Effects of plant residues on microbial activity
• The turnover of soil organic matter on different farm types

• Consumer demand for organic foods
• Non-medical control of parasitic worms in pigs
• New growing system for organic tomatoes
• Improper handling of grain may result in OTA
• Experimental units for organic farming research

March 2003

• Consequences of GMO
• Recycling the organic way
  
• Energy - reduction and production
• Workshop on research in organic pig production