The Living Lab Grand Est is complete! It consists of 15 farmers from the EMC2 and CAL cooperatives and the Les Décompactés de l’ABC association, advised by 6 technical advisors and 4 territorial stakeholders (Water Board Rhin-Meuse, Regional Directorate for Food, Agriculture, and Forestry, Environmental Association CPIE de Meuse, and the Meuse Department). We met on November 13, 2024, to discuss the OFE already started by some farmers and to collectively define the key performance indicators for the Grand Est area.
- Economy: GOS*/ha,
GOS/h, GOS/t, mechanisation costs
Gross operating surplus - Labour time: h/ha. Willingness to add administrative time
- Soil fertility: soil stability test, soil cover rate via the number of days in the year, C storage, humus rate
- Greenhouse gas emissions: direct and indirect emissions calculated by Systerre®.
- Biodiversity: based on a farm-wide diagnosis
- Quality of the finished product: production and nutritional quality. Opportunity for new markets?
Next time, we will take the Living Lab out into the field to give farmers a chance to share ideas, OFE and show local stakeholders the combination of agro-ecological levers they're testing.
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Pascaline Pierson, Coordinator of SIMONE project and Manager of Arvalis' Saint-Hilaire-en-Woëvre experimental station.