How dry will it get in Styria?
Agricultural production is directly dependent on climatic conditions, and therefore the emerging climate change poses an enormous challenge, especially for this sector. Many of the weather- and...
Great interest in webinar on the 47th Livestock Farming Conference
The 47th annual Livestock Farming Conference of the Institute for Livestock Research at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein took place at the beginning of April. However, due to the Corona pandemic, this year's conference could not be held in the Grimming Hall of the...
Horse hay quality in Austria under scrutiny
In 2018 and 2019, the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein, in cooperation with the Rosenau Feed Laboratory (Lower Austria Chamber of Agriculture), conducted the first horse hay project in Austria. A total of 512 test results were collected...
Milk fat quality is becoming more important
The composition of milk fat is of particular importance for human nutrition. At the Biology Institute of the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein, the effects of feed on fat quality have now been investigated in more detail. In particular...
Deadly hydrogen sulfide from the manure storage
In addition to stringent environmental protection requirements and increasingly scarce resources, the need to save time and money is also becoming ever more prominent in agriculture. The efficient and therefore low-loss application of...
Stoderzinken mountain lysimeter station
The HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein has operated a lysimeter and weather station on the Stoderzinken mountain at an altitude of 1800 m since 2006. As part of a collaboration and his master's thesis, Reinhold Schöngrundner is creating snow profiles to...
BIO-INSTITUT ANNUAL REPORT – Publications and research and implementation activities 2019
With the Bio-Institut annual report and newsletter, we take the liberty of informing you about our diverse organic activities at the Bio-Institut of the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein.
Climate impact research and climate change adaptation strategies
Presentation of the brochure "Climate Impact Research and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies": Climate change is a fact and it is happening. According to forecasts and climate models, the Central Alpine region in particular will be severely affected in the future...
Videos of presentations from the 2019 Organic Farming Conference
The Organic Institute of the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein welcomed more than two hundred interested participants from German-speaking countries and abroad to this year's organic farming conference. Quality – from soil to food...
First results from the Andean lupin project LIBBIO
The EU project “LIBBIO” aims, firstly, to examine the suitability of Andean lupin cultivation in various European countries, under different climatic conditions and on different soils, and secondly...