The Alley Mat profiDRAIN slatted floor covering tested here, a resilient floor covering in the lying and walking area for dairy cattle, beef cattle and fattening bulls, fulfilled the requirements of DIN 3763.
Agri-PV brings together the best of agriculture and solar power generation. The question remains: how do solar installations influence land management and crop yields? Early findings suggest that the benefits are measurable.
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.
In the run-up to the EnergyDecentral trade fair in Hanover in November 2024, the DLG asked German farmers in its most recent DLG Practice
Monitor – a survey on farmers’ opinion on practical farming issues - how they assess on-farm photovoltaic power stations and agrivoltaics.
In the run-up to the EnergyDecentral trade fair in Hanover in November 2024, the DLG asked German farmers in its most recent DLG Practice Monitor – a survey on farmers’ opinion on practical farming issues - how they assess on-farm photovoltaic power stations and agrivoltaics.
The results reveal that not only are farmers open to new aproaches in this area but they also display great interest.
In the current “Chart of the Month” from DLG-Agrifuture Insights, we present the innovations the industry is hoping for based on the results of the 2023/24 winter survey.
Daniel Lampart from Switzerland has been a member of the DLG for over 12 years. He has a farm and grows grain maize, rapeseed, barley and wheat. He also keeps 4800 laying hens and runs a biogas plant. His second pillar is the planning and construction of biogas plants as managing director of the company Agrigas.
