Where the horse played a major transpor t role, one-third of available, arable land was devoted to oat production.
They were transformed into arable land with plots divided by shallow ditches (figure 6e).
Testing a stockless arable organic rotation on a fertile soil.
The inhabitants occupied numerous small pieces of arable land rendered fertile by the surrounding wetlands.
Although farmers have long attempted to do this for weeds in arable fields, seed bank manipulation, especially for conservation, is in its infancy.
The area is dominated by arable land, grazed and abandoned pastures, spruce plantations and deciduous woods.
This corresponds to 15 times the arable land used for the production of feedstuffs in the region itself!
The organic farms cultivated, in 1999, about 270,000 ha farmland, 60,000 ha of which was arable land.
