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NJF seminar 430
Climate Change and Agricultural Production in the Baltic Sea Region
Focus on Effects, Vulnerability and Adaptation
4-6 May 2010 Sweden
Programme
4 May
08:30-10:30 Registration

10:30-11:05 (PRELIMINARY PROGRAM) Climate Change and Agricultural Production in the Baltic Sea Region

10:35-10:45 Welcome adress
Vice-Chancellor Lisa Sennerby Forsse, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

11:00-11:30 Future Agriculture - how can microbial research contribute ?
Assistant Vice-chancellor Johan Schnürer , Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

11:30-12:00 Climate outlook for the Baltic Sea region
Professor Markku Rummukainen, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden

12:00-12:30 Challenges for sustainable crop production in Northern Europe under climate change
Professor Jørgen E. Olesen, Department of Agroecology and Environment, Denmark

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:00 Climate Change- Challenge for Efficiency Testing of Crop Protection Systems in Northern Europe
Dr Ringolds Arnitis , Director of State Plant Protection Service of Latvia and chair of European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)

14:00-14:30 Climate change and the effect on infectious diseases of importance for animal production
Associate professor Ann Albihn, National Veterinary Institute (SVA), Sweden

14:30-15:00 Challenges for risk management related to emerging animal diseases
Dr Taina Aaltonen, Director of Animal Health and Welfare, Finnish food Safety Authority Evira, Finland

15:00-15:30 Coffee

16:00-16:30 Effect of climate change on Swedish Agriculture – an overview
Chief economist Harald Svensson, Swedish Board of Agriculture, Sweden

16:30-17:00 Agriculture and climate change, challenges and opportunities in a warmer world - farmers perspectives
Vice chair Elisabeth Gauffin, The Federation of Swedish Farmers – LRF

17:00-18:15 Panel discussion
Moderator Annika Åhnberg,

19:00-22:00 Conference dinner

 
5 May
08:30-17:00 Session: Soils and soil management
 
08:30-08:40     Soil science and climate change, introduction
Dr Lars Munkholm, Denmark
08:40-09:20     Climate change and soil carbon
Professor Guy JD Kirk, National Soil Resources Institute, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK
09:20-10:00     Soils and climate change in Baltic countries
Dr Virginius Feiza, Head of Department of Soil and Crop Management, Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture, Lithuania
10:00-10:30     Coffee
10:30-10:50     Nitrous Oxide Emissions and Controls as Influenced by Tillage and Crop Residue Management Systems
Dr James K. Mutegi, Department of Agroecology and Environment, Denmark
10:50-11:10     Impact of fertilized semi-natural grassland on GHG fluxes
Dr L.Balezentiene, Lithuanian University of Agriculture, Lithuania
11:10-11:30     Greenhouse gas mitigation options on cultivated organic soils
Dr Kristiina Regina, MTT, Jokioinen, Finland
11:30-11:50     Influence of climate change on growth and carbon sequestration potential of crops for energy use
Dr Susanne Eich-Greatorex, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
11:50-12:00     Discussion
12:00-13:00     Lunch
13:00-13:30     Poster session, soil science
13:30-13:55     Use and productivity of Latvia’s agricultural land, and its possible effect on sustainability
Professor Aldis Karklins, Latvia University of Agriculture, Latvia
13:55-14:20     Climate change of Karelia over the second half of the 20th century and it possible effect
Dr N. Filatov, Northern Water Problems Institute (NWPI), Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Karelia, Russia
14:20-14:45     Can the nitrogen effect of green manure crops be improved by using living mulches?
Dr Göran Bergkvist, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Dept. of Crop Production Ecology, Uppsala, Sweden
14:45-15:00     Discussion
15:00-15:30     Coffee
15:30-16:00     Some possibilities to assessment unfavourable influence of climate and soil conditions on plants growth
Dr Edvin Nugis, Estonian Research Institute of Agriculture, Saku, Estonia
16:00-16:30     Soil tilth in present and future arable farming: Management makes a difference
Dr Lars Munkholm, Department of Agroecology and Environment, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark
16:30-17:00     Discussion
18:30-21:00     Dinner

08:30-17:00 Session: Animal Science
 
08:30-08:55     Reindeer husbandry in a changing climate
Professor Öje Danell, Department of animal nutrition and management, Swedish university of agricultural sciences, Sweden
08:55-09:00     Veterinary medicine, Introduction
Associate professor Ann Albihn,
09:00-09:30     Risk assessment of animal diseases and climate change
Professor Ivar Vågsholm, Dept of biomedical Science and public health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
09:30-10:00     Risk management of animal diseases - an overview
Bengt Larsson, deputy chief veterinary officer, Swedish Board of Agriculture, Sweden
10:00-10:30     Coffee
10:30-11:00     Epidemiology of vector borne diseases: the African Experience
Dr Delia Grace, Veterinary epidemiologist, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya
11:00-11:30     Bluetongue on the wind: Long distance dispersal of Culicoides vectors
Dr Christopher Sanders, Vector Borne Disease Programme, Institute for Animal Health, UK
11:30-12:00     Management of the 2008 bluetongue outbreak in Sweden
Kristina Mieziewska, Department of Animal Welfare and Health, Swedish Board of Agriculture, Sweden
12:00-12:10     Arthropod vector surveillance in Sweden
Dr Anders Lindström, Department for Chemistry, Environment and Feed Hygiene, National Veterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
12:10-13:00     Lunch
13:00-13:30     Poster session
13:30-14:00     Coccidia in the Baltic livestock and the effects of climate
Dr Brian Lassen, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
14:00-14:30     Leptospira - an indicator of climate change-driven increased risk for infectious disease?
Professor Ulf Magnusson, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science , Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
14:30-15:00     Discussion
15:00-15:30     Coffee
15:30-15:40     Livestock production, introduction
15:40-16:10     Greenhouse gas emissions from livestock products
Dr Christel Cederberg, SIK, The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology, Sweden
16:10-16:30     Future Agriculture - a research initiative on livestock, crops and land use
Dr Lotta Rydhmer, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Swedish university of Agricultural Sceinces, Sweden
16:30-16:50     Impact of climate change on welfare of production animals
Prof David Arney, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
16:50-17:10     Effects of climate change on farm animal physiology
Professor Kjell Malmlöf, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry, SLU
18:30-21:00     Dinner

08:30-17:00 Session: Crop Production, crop protection
Room 1
 
08:30-08:35     Crop production in the future climate, introduction
Professor Henrik Eckersten, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
08:35-08:50     Challenges and Future Scenarios for Agricultural Production and Land Use
Professor Ingrid Öborn, Faculty of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
08:50-09:05     The influence of climate change on the beginning of spring season and the phenology of apple tree (Malus domestica Borkh) in Lithuania during the period 1971-2000
Dr Eugenija Bakšienė, Vokė Branch of the Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forest, Vilnius, Lithuania
09:05-09:20     Effects of climate change - CO2, O3 and temperature - on production in barley and oilseed rape
Dr Rikke B. Jørgensen, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark
09:20-09:35     Responses of reed canarygrass to root zone flooding and drought
M.Sc. Epie Kenedy Etone, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
09:35-09:50     Effect of Soil Warming and Rainfall Patterns on Soil N Cycling and the Performance of Winter Wheat
Dr Ravi Patil, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agroecology & Environment, Aarhus University, Denmark
09:50-10:05     Assessing winter survival of forage grasses in the Baltic Sea Region under future climate scenarios by simulating potential frost tolerance in combination with simple agroclimatic indices
Dr S. M. Thorsen, Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, Grassland and Landscape Division, Norway
10:05-10:30     Coffee
10:30-10:45     Nutrient-efficient crops: Why, what, how?
Professor Martin Weih, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden
10:45-11:00     Breeding of field crops for climate change
Dr Mati Koppel, Jõgeva Plant Breeding Institute, Estonia
11:00-11:15     Finnish food chain impacts on climate change
Professor Sirpa Kurppa, MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Biotechnology and Food Research, Jokioinen, Finland
11:15-11:25     Discussion
11:25-11:30     Weed science , introduction
Associate professor Lars Andersson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
11:30-12:00     Weeds in a changing climate - a north European Perspective
Dr. Michael Glemnitz, Leibniz-Centre for Landscape Research (ZALF) Department for Land Use, Muencheberg, Germany
12:00-13:00     Lunch
13:00-13:30     Poster session
13:30-13:40     Insects and climate , Introduction
13:40-14:20     Insects, Climate Change and Murphy's Law
Dr Richard Harrington, Deputy Science Director, Centre for Bioenergy and Climate Change, Rothamsted Research, UK
14:20-14:40     Potential alien invertebrate pests in Finland
Professor K Saikkonen, Plant Production Research, MTT, Finland
14:40-15:00     Predicting and detection of long-range migration of pest insects
Senior scientist Irmelii Markkula, MTT Agrifood Research, Finland
15:00-15:30     Coffee
15:30-15:50     Climate change and new pest problems in Finland
Dr E. Huusela-Veistola , MTT Agrifood Research, Finland
15:50-16:10     Climate change and agricultural insect pests in Russia
Dr Igor Grichanov, All Russian Institute of Plant Protection, St. Petersburg, Russia
16:10-16:30     Changing phenology and pest status of Danish Agrotis segetum related to climate change
Professor Peter Esbjerg, Department of Agriculture and Ecology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
16:30-16:50     Insect pest management and monitoring with pheromones and other semiochemicals
Professor Peter Witzgall, Dept. Plant Protection Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
16:50-17:10     Current and future crop protection problems in Poland in a changing climate
Professor Maria Ruszkowska, Institute of Plant Protection – National Research Institute, Poznań, Poland
18:30-21:00     Dinner

 
6 May
08:00-16:00 Soil science
 
08:30-08:55     The effect of primary soil tillage and organic fertilizers on soil properties and crop yield under changing climatic conditions in Lithuania
D. Karcauskiene, Vezaiciai Branch of Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania
08:55-09:20     Tillage and cover crop affected critical physical conditions for root growth
Dr G Kadziene , Institute of Agriculture, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Kedainiai distr., Lithuania
09:20-09:45     Long-term soil data sets will reveal shifts in populations of soilborne pathogens
Professor Anders Jonsson, Dept. Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
09:45-10:00     Discussion
10:00-10:30     Coffee
10:30-11:00     Simulated effects of green manure management and climate change on nitrogen loss and crop yield in organic stockless arable farming
PhD Signe K Borgen, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
11:00-11:30     Climate saving soils with biochar
professor Lars D. Hylander, Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Air, Water and Landscape Science, Sweden
11:30-12:00     Discussion
12:00-13:00     Lunch
13:00-14:30     Working group meetings including coffee
14:30-16:00     Final discussion and reporting from working groups

08:30-16:00 Crop production/protection
 
08:30-08:40     Plant diseases, Introduction
08:40-09:20     Integrating climate change in strategies for plant disease management
Professor Karen Garrett, Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, USA
09:20-09:40     Plant pathogens as climate change indicators in Finland
Dr Marja Jalli, Plant Production Research, MTT Agrifood, Finland
09:40-10:00     Plant diseases in a warmer climate – challenges for Sweden
Magnus Franzén and Gunilla Berg, Swedish Board of Agriculture, Sweden
10:00-10:30     Coffee
10:30-10:50     Effects of climate change on plant health
Dr Michael Lyngkjær, Department of plant biology and biotechnology, LIFE, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
10:50-11:10     Climate change and potato late blight
Professor Jonathan Yuen, Dept of Forest Mycology and Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Sweden
11:10-11:30     The effect of small shifts in climate conditions on the epidemiology of leaf blotch diseases in Norwegian wheat
Dr Andrea Ficke, Bioforsk Plantehelse, Norway
11:30-11:50     Incidence of Phoma leaf spot and stem canker in winter oilseed rape depending on some agronomical factors
Dr Oskars Balodis, Latvia University of Agriculture, Institute of Agrobio-technology, Latvia
11:50-12:10     Distribution and diversity of Potato mop-top virus in Sweden
Associate professor Anders Kvarnheden, Dept of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Sweden
12:00-13:00     Lunch
13:00-14:30     Working group meetings including coffee
14:30-16:00     Final discussion, reporting from working groups

08:30-16:00 Animal Science
 
08:30-08:40     Mitigation strategy, introduction
08:40-09:00     Nitrogen excretion of ruminant feeding legume silage
Prof Meelis Ots, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
09:00-09:20     Enteric methane emissions from dairy cows fed different proportions of high quality grass silage
Dr Mikaela Patel, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Dept. of Animal Nutrition and Management, Kungsängen Research Centre, Uppsala, Sweden
09:20-09:40     Greenhouse gas emissions from five Swedish dairy cow feed rations – is locally produced feed better?
Dr Ingrid Strid, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Dept. of Energy and technology, Sweden
09:40-10:00     Discussion
10:00-10:30     Coffee
10:30-10:50     Cost effective GHG mitigations strategies from a farmer’s perspective
Dr Maria Berglund, The Rural Economy and Agricultural Society [HS Halland], Lilla Böslid, Eldsberga
10:50-11:10     Automated in vitro gas production system compared to the in situ system to predict the energy value of ruminant feeds
PhD Mirko Cattani, Department of Animal Science, University of Padova, Italy
11:10-11:30     Effect of easily fermentable carbohydrates at different pH on methane emission measured with a wireless in-vitro gas production technique
Asssociate professor Hanne H. Hansen, Department of Large Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
11:30-12:00     Discussion
12:00-13:00     Lunch
13:00-14:30     Working group meetings including coffee

14:30-16:00 Final discussion, reporting from working groups

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