Land use
Crops (and rotation): Monoculture of corn one year and fallow with grazing animals the second year
Crop calendar & tillage practices: Tillage with tractor in December (to expose disease animal LARVE at the cold to kill them and indirectly, they create rough roughness which is reducing runoff. Sowing after first rain in June. Weeding and pig manure fertilisation by hand. Mounding corn one month later after seeding and some times a second fertilisation. One or two pesticide applications according to the animal attacks, and one possible herbicide (in monocrop). Manually harvest is normally at the end of November - December.
Chemicals (fertilizer, pesticides) applied: once pork manure after first rainfall, sometimes a second one during the corn mounding. One or two pesticide applications, according to animal attacks. One possible herbicide (in monocrop) application.
Irrigation: none
Natural vegetation, main types and species composition: Mixed forest of pine tree and oaks
Stocking density of animals: Free grazing: of +/- 10 cows.
