Successful topping-out ceremony at Jyndevad Experimental Station
We are pleased to announce that the topping-out ceremony for the new hall at Jyndevad Forsøgsstation has been successfully completed.
The day was marked by a visit from mayoral candidate Thomas Andresen, local craftsmen, partners, and guests from the surrounding community, all contributing to a festive and welcoming atmosphere. Guests were also given a tour of our lysimeter facility featuring the ongoing biochar work.
The new hall in St. Jyndevad represents a significant upgrade for the station. The building will house machinery and experimental equipment for field trials, and will also include staff facilities such as showers, toilets, a small kitchen, and a meeting room. With this investment, we ensure that the experimental station can continue its research and development activities for many years to come.
We look forward to bringing the hall into operation and taking advantage of the opportunities it provides to strengthen our long-term research projects. The hall will become a central site for innovation – from the new biochar initiative integrated into both the lysimeter system and field trials, to classical experiments with long-standing historical importance.
We continue the iconic lime and phosphorus rotation experiment, which has been running since 1942, and maintain our strong focus on pesticide monitoring, providing essential knowledge about environmental impacts on groundwater. The station also hosts observational trials with winter and spring varieties from Tystoftefonden, exciting field trials with glacial rock flour as well as DMI’s climate station supplying valuable data for future research.
There is also high activity at the Askov site. In the long-term fertilisation trials established 131 years ago, we collect soil water samples for the NY Mark Model and Brak 2 projects. We measure greenhouse gases in our straw incorporation trial from 1984, and in the lysimeter experiment with biochar we register both greenhouse gases and the leaching of nitrate and phosphorus.
The teams at Askov and Jyndevad consist of four permanent staff members, supported by four experienced on-call workers who can be brought in when extra capacity is needed. These assistants are well-acquainted with both locations and workflows, ensuring consistently high-quality work