TRAINING COURSES IN AGROECOLOGY, AGRONOMY, FERTILITY OF THE SOIL, PLANT NUTRITION, COVER CROPS

The fertility of the soil plays a crucial role in achieving high quality and abundant production. This training course explains how it is structured and how to develop it. It includes a workshop on the plots to apply the lessons learned and to be able to adapt one's production systems accordingly.

Cover crops are important agroecological levers. They provide many services at the parcel and ecosystem level. This training course deals successively with the question of their composition, of their sowing and of their management until their destruction.It is also an opportunity to think about how to position them in rotations to improve cropping systems.

The recent work of Olivier Husson provides a new perspective on the influence of pH-redox potential in the soil-plant relationship.
This training course addresses the various aspects of this parameter and helps to understand the practices to be favoured in order to evolve towards an efficient agroecological model.

Implement an agroecological farm model to improve profitability and technical results. This training course provides an understanding of this new agronomic point of view. In addition to the sources of fertility, it addresses the importance of a living soil for a quality soil-plant relationship. It also helps to understand how it works and the most suitable practices to support it.

Soil analysis is a fundamental tool for monitoring soil and its fertility. This training course provides all the knowledge necessary for its proper understanding in order to adapt cultural practices accordingly and support soil fertility and the soil-plant relationship. A moment is also devoted to the collective analysis of the documents provided by the participants.

Throughout its development, the plant needs the resources of the soil to ensure its growth and to produce biomass in quantity and quality. Recent work by agronomists shows that the two parameters go hand in hand. This training course discusses how the relationship between the soil and the plant is structured, as well as the most appropriate practices. The second part deals with how to design an adequate itinerary based on observations directly on the plot.