Review 9th Environmental Ecological Symposium
The symposium on the topic “Root research to support climate change adaptation strategies in agriculture and forestry” took place on September 17th and 18th, 2024 at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein.
Valuable professional exchange on organic research
In September 2024, colleagues from Department II/3 of the BML visited the Bio-Institute of the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein to discuss topics in organic research. Both the Moarhof in Stainach-Pürgg and the two...
2024
Participation in the BTU conference in Freising
The conference "Construction, technology and environment in agricultural animal husbandry" (BTU) is considered a regular industry meeting for agricultural research in the field of livestock husbandry. Every two years the KTBL, the Max-Eyth-Gesellschaft Agrartechnik...
2024
Project BERKY – Building a herd book for the Berkshire breed
Berkshire is one of the oldest pig breeds in Europe and originally comes from England. Due to the special meat quality, the breed is also in increasing demand in Austria.
2024
SEMINAR FarmLife for teachers: Train the Trainer, 13/14. November 2024
Eco-efficient agriculture means recognizing ecological connections and combining them with your own economic needs and the possibilities of the location. The farm management tool FarmLife can...
2024
Impressions of the AgroTier Wels
The agriculture of the future, research, AI and digitalization! From September 5th to 8th, 2024, we, the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein and the Innovation Farm, were represented at AgroTier Wels. We are extremely pleased to announce...
2024
Conference “Around beef” on December 3rd, 2024 at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein
Practical and future-oriented: Invitation to the “Rund um's Rind” conference Be there when Saatbau, Lely, Pöttinger and the cooperation partners Raumberg-Gumpenstein and Innovationfarm take part in the “Rund um's Rind” at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein...
2024
Korean students visiting Raumberg-Gumpenstein
On Monday September 2nd, 2024, 30 Korean students from the Korea National College of Agriculture and Fisheries visited us along with their professor and interpreter.
2024
75th EAAP Annual Meeting, Florence, Italy
Successful participation in the international animal science congress: HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein presents groundbreaking research results The European Association for Animal Sciences (EVT), founded as the 'European Association...
2024
Online seminar series for teachers at agricultural schools
New online seminar series for teachers at agricultural schools The HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein is actively committed to quickly communicating research results to young people and improving teaching at agricultural schools...
2024-09
Practical seminar: Sowing and composting soil
On Wednesday, October 2, 2024 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., the practical seminar will examine the question of what the optimal soil is for sowing and growing young plants.
Webinar - Creating and maintaining wildflower meadows
The webinar “Creating and maintaining wildflower meadows” will take place on April 3, 2025 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
2024-08
Gumpensteiner Weingarten receives hail protection net
On August 12th, the hail net was installed in the Gumpensteiner vineyard by the winemaking team from the Silberberg technical school. The vines are developing well and are now optimally protected from weather and browsing.
Training for sheep and goatherds 2025
Extensive grazing with small ruminants in the Alpine region is of great ecological, social and economic importance. However, this requires well-trained shepherds. In cooperation with the Austria Center...
Congratulations on your excellent final apprenticeship exam!
We are very pleased to announce that our administrative employee Celina Gröbl has passed the final apprenticeship examination with “Excellent Success”.
Produce quality hay for deer
Quality hay for deer: expert feeding and preservation techniques Deer are small ruminants that prefer leafy, varied forage with a high concentration of protein and energy.
Partner meeting of the Life VineAdapt project
From July 22nd to 25th, project partners of the life project VineAdapt from Hungary, France, Germany and Austria met in southern Styria at the site of the educational center for wine and fruit growing in Silberberg.
LfL Bavaria’s Organic Farming Competence Center visits the Organic Institute
The HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein Organic Institute has been working closely with the LfL Organic Agriculture Competence Center in Bavaria for many years.
We support climate-friendly agriculture
Climate change poses major challenges for agriculture. It is therefore important to support the farmers in this process. The educational offensive “Agriculture.Climate.Fit” offers extensive information and training...
Four hectares of wild bee pasture for the “BeeWild” species protection project
There has been a successful cooperation between the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein and the “BeeWild” initiative since the beginning of the year. The focus of this initiative is to create an ideal food base and safe nesting sites...
2024-07
Organic cattle breeding: A year full of knowledge and exchange!
BIO AUSTRIA has launched an exciting educational project on (organic) cattle breeding in 2024 in close collaboration with the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein Organic Institute and the main players in (organic) cattle breeding in Austria.
Keep an eye on the digestive processes of dairy cows during the transition to pasture by screening manure
Feed changes, such as at the beginning and end of the grazing season, also affect the digestive system of cattle, as the entire digestive system (especially the rumen) has to adapt to the new ration. With the help of feces screening you can...
EU Project Framework - Biodiversity and Citizen Science at the Schuller Biohof
The framework project is very diverse. One goal is to increase biodiversity on project farms in various EU countries through so-called “farmer clusters”. These farmer clusters are associations of...
Children's Academy Rottenmann 2024 visits the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein
Students research mobility with reference to agriculture and the environment On July 9, 2024, inquisitive participants from the Rottenmann Children's Academy aged eight to twelve researched the topic of "mobility" at...
Impact of drought on cocksfoot
With climate change and increasing droughts, cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata L.) is becoming increasingly important for agriculture. This study, published in a peer-reviewed international journal, examines the effects...
New operations and new measures in the “Greenhouse-efficient organic milk production” project
The “Greenhouse Gas Efficient Organic Milk Production” project is now in its third year. At the same time as the interim project report, we would like to publish an update for the period 2023-2024.
Science Days on the topic of invasive neophytes with schools from the region
Students remove invasive neophytes for the renaturation of wet areas and waterside strips. The HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein once again organized a total of 5 Science Days on the topic of...
Malting barley in climate change
The raw material in the brewing process is changing. The issue of the ORF magazine Land&Leute dealt with many key aspects of beer production in connection with climate change and was produced by Land Creates Life....
Expert meeting for peatland renaturation at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein
Peatlands and peatlands play an important role in mitigating climate change, for biodiversity and flood protection. However, the majority of the moors in Austria have been drained and the spread and condition of...
2024-06
FarmLife learning platform now available on raumberg-gumpenstein.at
A comprehensive package of teaching materials for the farm management tool www.farmlife.at for teachers at agricultural schools, which was expanded again last year, has been on the learning platform of the...
Cross-school and research collaboration
Julia Himmelfreundpointner, a graduate of HBLA Elmberg, worked on her diploma thesis “Technical measures to optimize feeding and stable climate in dairy cows” in collaboration with her school colleague Eva Hieslmayr in Ing....
Review of the first HofEr seminar at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein
With the amendment of the Styrian Spatial Planning Act 2010 in 2022, the designation of odor zones (an area affected by odor from agricultural animal husbandry operations) became necessary.
Field day 2024 in Lambach
At the Organic Institute's agricultural field day in Lambach/Stadl-Paura on June 12th, interested visitors found out about the current experiments and projects. In numerous personal conversations with the practitioners...
Successful Student Day 2024 at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein
The Student Day 2024 took place at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein on June 19, 2024 with great success. Over 250 students from agricultural schools from all over Austria took part in this exciting day, where...
HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein on the expert advisory board of EmiMod
After the large joint projects EmiDat and EmiMin, which were coordinated in recent years by the German KTBL (Board of Trustees for Technology and Construction in Agriculture), the follow-up project EmiMod was recently launched...
Master’s course “Precision Animal Health” in Gumpenstein
From 10th to 12th June 2024, the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein was the lecture destination of an international group of students from the...
Bavarian testing in exchange of experiences
On June 11th and 12th, employees of the Bavarian state testing department went on an excursion to HBLFA Gumpenstein. The group consisted of those technically responsible for carrying out the experiments from the nutrition offices...
LK silage project 2024 for grass silage and silage maize
For this year's basic fodder season, the Austria-wide LK silage project 2024 was initiated in order to work together with farmers to improve fermented feed quality, to gain and disseminate current findings and...