Nordic Association of Agricultural Science

Environmental sustainability in a climate change context: challenges and adaptation
2023-03-16 | On-line
The conference is organised by Lithuanian Society of NJF. Participation to the conference is free of charge, but the attendants are requested to register to the event. The official language is English.
For programme, registration and instruction to join the conference on-line, please click here

NJF Nordic Agricultural Congress 2022 - Onward in Agriculture
2022-09-27 - 2022-09-29 | Iceland
Selfoss, Iceland, September 27-29, 2022
The Nordic Association of Agricultural Science, NJF, welcomes participants to our 27th International Congress on Nordic Agriculture. Besides gathering participants of the Nordic Hemisphere, this congress also celebrates a centennial jubilee. Our first NJF congress was held in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1921 and last time we visited Iceland was in 1995. We have thus waited 27 years to return to our Icelandic colleagues and do hope that participants all over the world are curious to meet and experience the hospitality of Iceland.
More information on the event here.

RISK ANALYSIS SEMINAR and SIMETAR WORKSHOP
2022-08-01 - 2022-08-03
Dept. of Economics and Society in NIBIO will arrange a three days’ workshop dealing with use of the software SIMETAR (SIMulations and Econometrics To Analyze Risks) in “Store møterom”, Raveien 9, Ås from August 1-3 2022. SIMETAR is an Excel Add-in and good knowledge in using Excel in addition to interest in conducting risk analysis is required to benefit from the workshop. The target group is researchers, post-docs and scholarship holders with requirements to conduct risk analysis for publishing scientific journal articles.
Dr Keith Schumann will lecture at the workshop. Before the workshop at around 9:30 Am he will give a 2 h open presentation entitled “Risk Analysis, Simulation, and Spreadsheet Modelling: Applications in Crop Insurance”. The seminar will also be streamed on Teams.
Dr Keith Schumann is Senior Vice President of AgriLogic Consulting, located at the campus of Texas A&M in College Station. He also participated in a similar workshop, organized by NILF (Norwegian Institute of Agricultural Economics Research) in cooperation with NJF, which was held in Ås in 2004.
More information about the workshop and registration etc. can be found here:
https://nibio.pameldingssystem.no/simetar

Soil and water conservation under changing climate in Northern or high altitude conditions
2022-05-04 - 2022-05-05 | Ås, Norway
Invitation to conference
On behalf of IUSS (International Union of Soil Science), Norwegian Society of Soil Science (Norsk Jordforening), ESSC (European Society for Soil Conservation), NLF (Nordic Association for Agricultural Science), Norwegian extension Service (NLR), NIBIO and NMBU and the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to attend the International seminar: Soil and water conservation under changing climate in Northern or high altitude conditions.
The seminar will be hosted in Ås, Norway from 4- 5th May 2022 with an excursion on the 6 th May.
Deadlines:
Abstract submission. 31 January 2022
Decisions of oral /poster presentation: 15 February 2022
Early registration: 20 March 2022
Final Registration: 19 April 2022
Soil and water conservation under changing climate in Northern or high altitude conditions. (pameldingssystem.no)

NJF 27th Congress 2021
2021-06-01
The 27th NJF Congress will be held in 2021. Date and country will be decided in autumn 2019.

Advances and Innovations in Agricultural Engineering. NJF, EurAgEng, Agromek joint seminar
2021-01-19 - 2021-01-20 | Herning, Denmark
The seminar is cancelled due to the restrictions caused by the corona virus.
Due to the success from 2014, 2016 and 2018, we continue to arrange the 4th seminar within technology linked to the Agromek Fair, focusing on digitalization, precision farming and innovation within agricultural engineering. This time the conference runs in January the 19th and 20th of January 2021. The participant will have the opportunity to visit the Agromek Fair.
See here for more detailed information.

Cycle of multidisciplinary virtual seminars, organised by the Economy – Education and Society section, NJF
2020-12-02, 2020-11-04, 2020-10-07 | Virtual (Adobe Connect, https://ac.vdu.lt/vk1)
Seminars have been organised first Wednesday each month (except summer holidays in July and August) since May 6, 2020 from 12:00 to 13:30 Central European time (13:00 to 14:30 Eastern European time). The schedule of each seminar include two 15-20 minutes presentations with possibility for 20 minutes discussion after each of them. It is welcome participation of senior and other researchers, including PhD and master’s students as speakers, and all other researchers and students as guests.
See here for more detailed information.

Nordic-Baltic Vegetable meeting 2020
2020-11-09 | Kristianstad, Sweden
NJF plans to organise a Nordic-Baltic vegetable meeting in Kristianstad, November 2020.
The event that runs from Monday evening until Tuesday evening will be a meeting opportunity for farmers, advisors, companies and the vegetable food sector to present recent findings and exchange ideas within the vegetable sector. The Vegetable meeting will be followed by a N-B Fruit and Berries Meeting.

Sustainable fruit and berry cultivation
2020-09-09 - 2020-09-10 | Polli, Estonia
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to participate in the international scientific conference on “Sustainable fruit and berry cultivation” during September 9-10, 2020 at Polli Horticultural Research Centre of Estonian University of Life Sciences, Polli, Estonia. With the conference we mark the 75 years from the beginning of pomological research and 100 years of horticultural education in Polli.
Abstract submission until April 1, 2020.
More information: Polli100 conference invitation_2020

Buckwheat lecture in Sweden by Professor Ivan Kreft
2019-09-23 | Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Uppsala
NJF welcomes Prof Kreft to have a lecture on buckwheat research in Europe.
The lecture will be held in English at the SLU campus in Uppsala.
NJF members are welcome to participate without fee. Non-members will be invoiced 250 SEK for participation.
Please contact Fredrik.Fogelberg@ri.se for more information.

Prof. Dr. Ivan Kreft, Dipl. Eng. Agr.

Scientist
The research interest of Prof. Ivan Kreft Kreft are the genetic, physiological, and other basics of quality and nutritional value of grains of buckwheat, barley, spelt, wheat, maize, beans and pumpkins, in particular the content and distribution of flavonoids (including rutin) and other secondary plant metabolites, selenium, zinc, protein, starch and fibre, as well as ultrastructural characteristics of seeds. His research and teaching experience includes visiting professorships in Japan (Food Science Dep. at Kyoto University, and Faculty of Nutrition of Kobe-Gakuin University) and China (Shanxi University in Taiyuan). He has authored numerous scientific papers in journals such as Journal of Experimental Botany, the New Phytologist, the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Food Chemistry, the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology, and Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine. The scientific research findings of I. Kreft were incorporated in the development of novel high-quality food products in Slovenia, Denmark and Japan.

NJF Conference on Horticulture
2019-06-10 - 2019-06-13 | Tartu, Estonia
Dear colleagues,
I am happy to invite you to our NJF Conference on Horticulture in Tallinn, Estonia on June 10th -13th 2019.
Link to Conference website!
As you know the NJF – Nordic Association of Agricultural Science was founded in 1918 to promote scientific cooperation cross the borders of Scandinavia. Today, a century later we are still committed to this mission to encourage the exchange of knowledge in agriculture between our Nordic-Baltic countries.
The horticultural conference in Estonia in 2019 will be an excellent opportunity to present ongoing research and collaborations within a wide range of topics, It will also be a possibility to meet colleagues and find new partners for development of horticulture in a broad perspective.
Although the conference has a Nordic-Baltic perspective, we welcome participants from all countries to take part and enjoy the hospitality of our Estonian colleagues and their beautiful country.
Welcome in June 2019 to Estonia!

Fredrik Fogelberg
President of NJF
