Sugar factories are real „energy guzzlers“ and have a correspondingly large CO2 footprint. But high emissions are also produced in the field and especially during transport. Reducing these costs a lot of money and will take years.
In an impulse forum at the DLG Winter Conference 2025 in Münster in mid-February, the DLG Farm Management Committee focussed on a highly relevant topic: ‘The agricultural country Ukraine between war and EU accession’.
Some alternatives are already ready for the market - for example, fully electric tractors. Large tractors and harvesters, on the other hand, are still dependent on liquid fuels. But which ones? There are still many unanswered questions and a number of hurdles that need to be overcome.