WP1 – National Expert Groups: Refining Best Practices
On 16 September 2025, SEGES Innovation hosted the final online workshop with representatives from all National Expert Groups in the Nutri-Check Net project. The workshop marked an important step in consolidating the list of best practices for sustainable nutrient management.
Building on earlier work – including the Aarhus workshop in May and national consultations – the session focused on reviewing, refining, and agreeing on the practices most relevant across Europe. Discussions highlighted the need to ensure practices are both general enough to be applied internationally, yet flexible enough to adapt to local farming contexts.
Key themes included:
- The role of soil analysis across both planning and review phases, and how results should be used to inform nutrient management.
- The importance of recording and reviewing yields, benchmarking against multiple indicators, and ensuring data feeds into planning for the next season.
- The value of collaboration and knowledge sharing – farmers working together or with advisors to interpret results and translate them into action.
- Emerging practices such as nutrient analysis in harvested crops, which, while less widespread today, hold promise for more precise nutrient balances in the future.
The workshop also discussed additional suggestions from the national groups, such as integrating climate and environmental considerations, irrigation management, and cover crop nutrient recovery. These inputs will help ensure that the final set of best practices reflects both current realities and future opportunities.
The outcomes from this workshop will feed directly into the final recommendations of the project, to be presented at the Nutri-Check Net Final Conference in Brussels on 18 November 2025.
Stay tuned for the concluding phase of the project as we move from co-creation to the dissemination of the final best practices across Europe.
