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It's been a mild spring in southwest Iceland. Garlic looking good 👍

Farmers in the north of Iceland, just below the arctic circle, are ploughing a field of 60 hectares for spring barley. ruv.is/frettir/innlen…

Ash trees especially are robbing spring barley of moisture.

Finally, some Scottish barley to Iceland. It's been a thousand years since last time

Iceland has Europe's largest desserts. We are testing oats in the sandy ash from Mt. Hekla. Oats have shown potential in poor soil conditions before and could help in fighting erosion while also producing food and feed

What does seeding in south Iceland look like? Here's a long video about it, something for you lo-till enthusiasts: youtube.com/watch?v=VkvqjE…

Dairy farmer in the north if Iceland just shared this photo from their farm. We conduct some field experiments there.

The OatFrontiers project is organizing a stakeholder study tour 4th and 5th of August for all interested in oats at the Northern periphery area. Join us for two days to learn from oat production and processing in Northern Finland. Deadline 31.5. interreg-npa.eu/projects/oatfr…

Organic disease management? Channa Prakash

After a mild winter in Iceland, we have had an incredibly warm spring. Here is a picture of an oilseed nape field in the north of Iceland form this morning.

Trial has emerged in Iceland after an incredibly warm spring

Oats have emerged from the ashes of Mt. Hekla

Spring barley looking good

After a record warm spring winter is back. Picture taken from my home this morning. The situation is seriously bad in the north.

Reykjavík, Iceland 🇮🇸

It was great to see these trials. I hope to identify the same early oats in Icelabd this year

Farmer in the north of Iceland shared this photo of our barley field trials in his field from midsummers night.

4th of July we celebrate the only day when Americans use the correct data format

"A Young Woman in the Meadow" – Hans Dahl (Norwegian, 1849–1937), painted in 1894, oil on canvas, 66 cm x 49 cm