Agricultural sciences

The forestry will together with the agricultural sector play an important role when we break free from today's fossil dependency and our future society is build. At our department we study how

Mårten Hetta, Researcher/Head of department Department of Agriculture Research for Northern Sweden, SLU marten.hetta@slu.se, +46(0)90 786 8747, +46(0)70-589 83 55 Johanna Wallsten, Researcher/Deputy

The aim of the project is to find an optimal level of nitrogen fertilisation for whole crop harvests of pea/oat mixtures. An optimal level means a good yield with high crude protein content in

The CORE Organic Cofund project MIX-ENABLE aims to deepen our understanding of organic mixed livestock farming (i.e. integrating two or more animal species) in Europe, to find sustainable and robust

msna0004 My work is focused on the use of crop models to assess the impact of climate change and agronomic management on crop performance, so as to propose suitable adaptation strategies concerning

To replace fossil fuels with renewable alternative in our vehicles is a huge challenge! Before the actual movement of e.g. a car, tractor or truck, the fuel has gone through a long chain. It has been

Plant Ecology & Weed Biology The Plant Ecology group deals with the functional interactions among plants and between plants and the environment. In our research we investigate the general processes

Plants do not see, hear, smell or test, but they communicate with each other in different ways including chemical signalling between different plants pairs. The aim of our research is to develop

The Department of Crop Production Ecology provides education in the biology and ecology of cultivated crops and their production. The Department also provides courses on how production methods and

Weed biology is an integrated science with the aim of minimising the negative effects of weeds and of exploiting and promoting positive characteristics in the agroecosystem. It includes the biology

Our research contributes to sustainable methods of protecting agricultural crops and forests against pests. More knowledge is needed about the interaction between insect pests, their enemies and the

eava0005 Effects of alternative feed components on gut microbiota and resistance to Campylobacter in broiler chickens. Bachelor's degree in Animal Breeding and Master's degree in Animal Nutrition,