Souleuvre en Bocage
The key points
The site:
- Location : Souleuvre en Bocage, Calvados
- SAU of the farm : 170ha
- Project size : 3ha + 6ha sample
- Agricultural production : Forage crop
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Shading greatly limits the thermal stress associated with hot weather. We already have very good results in terms of biomass production. When it was very hot, we had almost doubled our production under the canopy compared to the control plot.
Yoann Bizet, farm operator in Souleuvre en Bocage
Les scores of our demonstrators
= The yield of the meadow mixture, in the hottest month (August) under the canopy, reached twice the yield of the control zone and was equivalent from June to October (Souleuvre en Bocage, 2024)
-1°C Soil is around -1°C cooler and fewer extreme temperatures
+ 1 pt Less evapoperspiration under the canopy
+1 pt of humidity in the air under the canopy (in September: 91.4% under the control vs 92.3% under the canopy)
= The behavior seems similar under the canopy and the witness
