Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland / 06:14 / POSTED 06.12.16

A farmer’s dilemma

There is a saying that goes "The best thing about the good old days - is the fact they are not coming back". Being the sixth generation farmer on the old family property, Mogens Haugaard Nielsen is a modern farmer with a long running history of farming the soils of Stevns in Denmark. In the conventional farming of today, pesticides are among one of the ways to optimize production. Take a look at what Mogens thinks about the Danish Pesticide Leaching Assessment Programme and how he is coorporating with the researchers by subletting his field to the programme (www.pesticidvarsling.dk)