Against this backdrop, the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein agricultural research institute developed 30 concrete recommendations for dairy farms, designed to enable or facilitate the implementation of practices promoting sustainability. The recommended measures cover forage production, animal husbandry, manure management , and energy and farm management . All recommendations have been compiled into concise, clearly structured, one-page information sheets. They contain information on implementation, ecological impact, farm management , and further links on the topic.
The plan was developed based on economic feasibility and scientific foundation.
These recommendations provide dairy farms with a tool to better combine ecological and economic management and to actively contribute to achieving company, national and European sustainability goals.
All recommendations at a glance
We have compiled all the measures for you in a PDF document - below you can download the individual measures relating to the economic sectors.
Forage production
- Reduce soil cultivation
- Forage legumes in crop rotation
- Grain legumes in crop rotation
- Hedges along field edges on arable land
- Soil compaction and traffic
- Reduced management of organic soils
- Non-plowing renewal of permanent grassland
- Site-adapted grassland management
- Optimize basic feed at the site
- Adapted fertilization
- Reduce fertilization in driving lanes
- Rapid incorporation of manure into arable land
Animal husbandry
- Increase pasture share
- Milk yield according to own forage potential
- Lifetime performance
- Reduction of methane production in the rumen
- Protein-optimized feeding and ration calculation
- Temperature reduction in the barn
- Low-emission solid manure storage
- Cleanliness of the running surfaces
Manure management
- Fermentation of manure in biogas plants
- Low-emission slurry storage
- Acidification of the liquid manure
- Liquid manure dilution
- Ground-level slurry application
Energy and Operations Management
- Renewable energy sources at the company
- Energy-efficient fieldwork and machinery
- Energy-efficient building technology
- Improve machine utilization
- Food conversion
Team
Mag. Christian Fritz, MA
Head of Department for Economics and Resource Management
Eva-Maria Peter, MA
Deputy Department Head