Welcome to the ISTRO website
On this site you will find information about the International Soil Tillage Research Organisation (ISTRO), which focusses on the impact and consequences of various soil tillage (including no-till) practices and from field traffic. More information about the organisation itself can be found on the organisation page.
Activities organised by ISTRO and other organisations concerning soil tillage can be found on the activities page.
Further information about recent publications are found on the publications page.
ISTRO INFO December 2020
- Published: 07 December 2020 07 December 2020
December 7th 2020 - The latest version of ISTRO info, the December 2020 issue, is available for download. In this issue:
- ISTRO Board election - reminder
- ISTRO 2021 conference
- Reflection on the Soil & Tillage Research Virtual Special Issue
- 1st ISTRO Working Group – Conservation Soil Tillage Workshop
- New PhD graduate awarded a 3-year ISTRO membership
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- New Books
1st ISTRO Working Group – Conservation Soil Tillage (WG-CST) Workshop was held 8th–9th September, 2020, Osijek, Croatia. Host institutions were CROSTRO (Croatian branch of ISTRO), Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences Osijek (as host institution) and OLMIX group. Since the WG-CST has main intention to discuss and gathering basic knowledge about the current situation in science and professional work in ISTRO main interest areas the 1st Workshop was organized as a two days meeting.
The first day of the 1st ISTRO WG-CST Workshop was organized as a round table with oral presentations and discussions, while the second day was organized as a field trip. The next meeting is planned for end of June next year (in 2021 - prior to main ISTRO Conference in Dublin) if allowed by the COVID-19 situation (exact dates and location will be setup in due time).
More details in the ISTRO INFO issue. (Photo: WG-CST round table discussion - by Danijel Jug)
ISTRO info August 2020
- Published: 26 August 2020 26 August 2020
April 30th 2020 - The latest version of ISTRO info, the August 2020 issue, is available for download.
In this issue:
- ISTRO 2021 conference
- Nominations for President-elect
- Nominations for Assistant Secretary General
- Nominations for Board positions
- New special issue on terrain-machine Interactions
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- New Books
In this issue special, and repeated, attention for the nomintions for President Elect, Assistant Secretary General and Board positions; those interested in holding the 24th conference in 2027 should nominate for ISTRO President-elect (and thus serve on the ISTRO board). In the first instance, they should contact Secretary-General Blair McKenzie (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Assistant Secretary-General Lars J. Munkholm (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) on or before September 1st, 2020, to discuss their interest.
The Assistant Secretary General position will be vacant after the 2021 conference in Dublin where Lars J. Munkholm will take over from Blair McKenzie as Secretary General.
Nominations for minimum two and maximum four Board positions of 6 years and are now being accepted from all ISTRO members in good standing. We aim at a good geographical spread and a gender balance. The current ISTRO Board has a good geographical spread but a very poor gender balance (all members are male). Therefore, we strongly encourage our female members to consider this opportunity.
More details in the newsletter.
ISTRO info April 2020
- Published: 02 May 2020 02 May 2020
April 30th 2020 - The latest version of ISTRO info, the April 2020 issue, is available for download.
In this issue:
- ISTRO 2021 conference
- Nominations for President-elect
- Nominations for Assistant Secretary General
- Nominations for Board positions
- New S&T Research Editor in Chief – Joshua Heitman
- Central European ISTRO Conference - New date
- CROSTRO Conference 2020 - New date
- ISTRO working group C Conservation Soil Tillage 1st meeting – New date
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- New Books
In the picture on the left, the University College Dublin, Belfield Campus, located in south Dublin, Ireland, where the 22nd International ISTRO conference will be held on 20-24th September 2021.
The conference theme will be: 'Soil and tillage and the transition to digital agriculture'. The article in this issue of ISTRO info says this about this theme: 'Agriculture may seem largely the same as it always has been with machines and energy used to till, sow, maintain and harvest crops for food. However, over the last few years there has been a rapid and significant introduction of digital data, computers, networks, connections, sensors and models that are beginning to change how agriculture works, the skills needed by the farming industry and research required now and in the future. The 22nd ISTRO international conference will examine where we are, and the pathway forward for soil and tillage in the age of digital agriculture. (photo: courtesy ECD).