“And all that I created for you I created, choose not to spoil or destroy it…. because if you spoil it there will be no one to correct it after you”
Model Farm for Sustainable Agriculture
The Model Farm is currently being set up at the Newe Ya’ar Research Center, in order to examine, demonstrate and disseminate among farmers the principles of Sustainable Agriculture.
What's new at the Model Farm?
Just got funded – Precise application of herbicides using drones
The new year brings some success in research funding. Recently, a project led by Prof. Yael Dubowski (Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion) and
Just got funded – Development of a new method for determining the daily irrigation dose
The new year brings some success in research funding. Recently, a project led by Dr. Shmulik Friedman from the Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental
Just got funded – A new PRIMA project
Just before the beginning of 2023, the “PRIMA” program in which Dr. Roey Egozi and Dr. Roy Posmanik involved as the Israeli partners was awarded.
Eco-friendly Next Generation Soil Amendments for Soil and Plant Health
Dr. Eric Palevski, Newe Ya’ar Research Center. Soils are the major reservoir of global biodiversity, the substrate for supporting agriculture and food security, regulating greenhouse
Spring 2022 -Sowing Corn in the Service Crop Plot
In the service crop plot at the model farm, corn was successfully sown this week. The agro-technical challenge we faced was to place the seeds
The Wild Almond
We are happy to share a link to the first published article based on experiments from the almond orchard in the Model Farm. The article
A student workshop on life cycle assessment (LCA) and technoeconomic analysis (TEA) to evaluate sustainability metrics
It was a great pleasure to host Prof. Deborah Sills‘s workshop at Newe Ya’ar. Prof. Sills is an environmental engineering professor at Bucknell University having
Mathematical modeling of biological control to support agriculture and conservation
We are a group of entomologists from different parts of the world working on topics related to biological control (i.e., the use of organisms to
