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Agriculture

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Since its founding in 1885, the DLG has dedicated itself to the transfer of knowledge and the promotion of quality along the entire process chain from agriculture to the food industry. The DLG is an important source of inspiration for agriculture and agribusiness and its upstream and downstream sectors thanks to its Competence Center Food, its trade fairs and exhibitions and its network of experts in all major sectors. 

The networking of experts in the DLG expert committees and other bodies and working groups ensures that the technical work is up-to-date and highly relevant to practice. The Test Center Technology and Farm Inputs is one of the leading international testing and certification organisations in the fields of tractors, agricultural technology and farm inputs. The DLG is an organiser or partner of the world's leading trade fairs for agricultural technology, crop production, animal farming technology, forestry, renewable energies and food production. These include the two world's leading trade fairs AGRITECHNICA and EuroTier.

[Translate to English:] Landwirte auf dem Acker

Current Test reports


6-row precision drill Amazone Precea 4500-2CC Super

In the field test, the accuracy of eventual crop spacing was assessed as ‘very good’ in all instances with one exception. Field emergence of all six varieties was assessed as ‘very good’.

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Mechanical drill Horsch Versa 3 KR

The mechanical drill Horsch Versa 3 KR produced an impressive performance in the test and its relevant criteria that were specified in the DLG test framework.

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John Deere Forage Harvester 9500  i

The John Deere 9500 i forage harvester (model year 2023) in the tested specification achieved throughputs of up to 270 tonnes of fresh mass per hour (at a nominal 7 and 12 mm LOC), demonstrating that it was able to deliver its potential in the prevailing test conditions. The fuel rates per operating hour did not change significantly when the LOC settings were changed. The specific fuel consumption rates dropped when throughput increased. All measurements show overall low rates of 0.49 to 0.58 litres per tonne of harvested material.

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International DLG Crop Production Center (IPZ)

Research for agriculture in the areas of: 
Arable farming, digitalization, agricultural technology
and knowledge transfer into practice

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Sustainable agriculture arable farming

With the DLG Sustainable Agriculture Programme for Arable Farming, agricultural businesses can provide information about their sustainability profile. 

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DLG Dairy Farming programme

The DLG programme promotes animal-friendly husbandry of dairy cows. It contains requirements for space availability, contact with the outdoor climate, high-quality feed, employment material and health care and many other important requirements for the management of animal-friendly husbandry. The increased animal welfare is demonstrated with four different awards.

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DLG-Agrifuture Insights

DLG-Agrifuture Insights is the DLG knowledge brand and platform for international trend analyses in the agricultural sector.

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Awards - Agriculture

The DLG has set itself the goal of supporting talent and promoting innovative ideas.

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Agricultural podcasts

We discuss current agricultural topics with experts

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Contact

Competence Center Agriculture
S.Springer@DLG.org 
 

Test Centre Technology & Equipment
Tech@DLG.org
 

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