San Bonifacio Farm

This site combines minimum tillage, organic fertilisation and residue retention with soil-health actions aimed at improving tree/hedgerow components, cover cropping, rotation design and reduced disturbance. The cropping system includes soybean (food/feed), oats (feed/food) and alfalfa (feed).

Trees and green ground cover at San Bonifacio Farm.

Carbon farming practices implemented

05 - Increasing hedgerow or field boundary tree cover  

11 - Manure incorporation into soil  

15 - Cover cropping introduction or improvement

16 - Improved crop rotations

21 - Reduced soil disturbance (ranging from reduce/ minimum tillage to no-till in cropland)

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Farm activities

Soil cultivation practices  

Tractor pulling a seed drill across a cultivated field.
Minimun tillage

Tractor spreading organic manure over a field.
Solid manure

Crops:  

Maize cobs with husks opened on standing plants.
Maize

Green cereal crop growing in a field.
Forage

Dense green cereal plants under an overcast sky.
Oat

Poplar trees growing in rows.
Cover crop

Soybean plants with mature pods in a field.
Soybean

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