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Book of Abstracts <strong>First</strong> <strong>Legume</strong> <strong>Society</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> 2013: A <strong>Legume</strong> Odyssey Novi Sad, Serbia, 9-11 May 2013<br />

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KEYNOTE LECTURE<br />

Understanding and enhancing the legume cropping environment<br />

CA Watson 1 , M Reckling 2 , A Bues 2 , T Kuhlman 3 , K Lindström 4 , D Murphy-Bokern 5 , S Preißel 2 ,<br />

CFE Topp 1 , P Zander 2 , FL Stoddard 4<br />

1 SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College), Edinburgh, UK<br />

2 ZALF, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg, Germany<br />

3 LEI Wageningen UR, 'S-GRAVENHAGE, Netherlands<br />

4 University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Finland<br />

5 Murphy-Bokern Konzepte, Kroge-Ehrendorf Lohne, Germany<br />

<strong>Legume</strong>s in farming systems provide a number of functions, not only the obvious ones<br />

associated with food or feed production. Grain legumes are grown as components of crop<br />

rotations, often providing a “break” from pests and diseases as well as supplying nitrogen to the<br />

following crop. They can be grown as either as sole crops or intercropped with cereals. Forage<br />

legumes can be grown as components of temporary pastures (leys) or as more permanent<br />

grassland. Apart from for seed, the majority of forage legumes are grown in mixtures with<br />

grasses, other legumes and forbs. In many cases more than one variety of a legume will be grown<br />

within the mixture to provide the desired forage characteristics. From a systems perspective it is<br />

important to understand the agronomic challenges associated with legume production and<br />

identify solutions to the factors that affect both yield and quality. These include a wide variety of<br />

issues from crop nutrition to weed control as well as issues associated with grazing management.<br />

However, legumes also have a number of impacts on both resource use efficiency and<br />

environmental impact not only during the production period but also on following crops. This<br />

paper will explore the agronomic and environmental issues associated with legume production in<br />

farming systems.<br />

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