The HBLFA is located in Ennstal, Styria, and was created in 2005 from the merger of the formerly independent institutions BAL Gumpenstein and HBLA Raumberg. As the largest department of the BMLRT (Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and...
The Higher Federal Training and Research Institute for Agriculture ( HBLFA ) has been conducting practice-oriented research in agriculture for more than 60 years, especially for grassland and livestock farms in the Alpine region. Through the central...
Raumberg is the school location. The walk from Gumpenstein to Raumberg takes about 10 minutes. The distance to Vienna is 270 km, to Graz 140 km and to Salzburg 135 km. For over five decades it has been an educational institution for...
The Moarhof is our organic farm and is located behind Trautenfels Castle in the municipality of Pürgg-Trautenfels. It is also the headquarters of our Bioinstitute with branches in Wels and Lambach. Embedded in this institute is the...
Focal points at the branch in Thalheim near Wels Preservation of the genetic resources of agricultural animals and establishment of a gene bank as part of the ÖNGENE (Austrian National Association for...
At the Bio-Institut's location in Lambach/Stadl-Paura, experiments on organic farming are being carried out on an area of approx. 20 hectares. The test questions range from variety testing and fertilization trials to a wide variety of...
In Piber, as part of research activities, grassland experiments have been carried out since 1961 (permanent grassland, fertilization and usage intensities, crop rotation experiments, official variety value tests and basic propagation of forage plant seeds)...