The rooms (cold room and pre-cooling room) for cooling and maturing the carcasses have been renovated and are now operational again. These were made with sandwich elements (Polystrol sandwich element Classic glass board/sheet metal 100) and...
Numerous interested parties from a wide range of disciplines attended the invitation from Dr. Bernhard Krautzer, Dr. Wilhelm Graiss and DI Lukas Gaier followed to the 1st Gumpenstein greening conference.
Intact moors provide numerous ecosystem services. They are large water reservoirs, the best carbon stores among terrestrial ecosystems and irreplaceable habitats for numerous rare and endangered plant and animal species....
Colleagues from the Animal Husbandry Systems, Technology & Emissions department took part in the 50th anniversary celebration of the pig producer association on Saturday, August 27th, 2022, at the invitation of Styriabrid.
The 3rd newsletter is online and provides information about further steps and key data of the EU4Shepherds project.
Project goal: Passing on knowledge on the topics of creating biodiversity areas in arable and grassland, converting and redesigning municipal green spaces and private garden areas
Project goal: Innovative training for sustainable herd management
People with special needs are at risk of segregation and their opportunities in the labor market are very limited. Promoting their professional integration is of utmost importance as it requires fulfillment, autonomy,...
On July 25th and 26th, representatives of the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein, the Austrian Bear, Wolf, Lynx Center and experts from AGRIDEA Switzerland met to exchange information and experiences on the topic of large carnivores. The wolf...
On July 14th and 18th, 2022 it was that time again - students from the Enns and Paltental visited the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein.
The Rigorosum by Dipl.-Ing. took place on July 1st, 2022. Florian Grassauer, BSc. at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. There he defended his dissertation entitled “Eco-efficiency of Austrian farms considering multiple functions of...
As part of this year's summer festival, our pensioners were farewelled on July 8, 2022.
On Friday, July 8th, a small but fine delegation from the WKÖ, quality management department in the food trade, visited the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein. The aim of the 8-person delegation consisting of...
On June 30th, 2022 at 8:15 p.m. there was another Raumberg-Gumpensteiner contribution on Servus TV in the PM-Wissen series: Andreas Bohner was with the Servus TV production team on the grassland areas of the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein on May 25th, 2022. ..
Communication is a constant flow of development!
At the Gröbming Technical School for Agriculture and Food Economics, the event took place on Friday, June 24th. A chalet village was ceremoniously opened.
The annual field day took place on June 21st at the Bio-Institut site in Lambach/Stadl-Paura. Very interested visitors found out about the experiments currently underway.
After a year of preparatory work, the exhibition and excursion area on the topics of “Soil-Water-Plants” was opened on Wednesday, June 22nd by Dr. Andreas Steinwidder - representing Dir. Johann Gasteiner - and Dr. Bernhard Krautzer, Head...
Project goal: The LIFE VineAdapt project aims to help improve the resilience of vineyard ecosystems to climatic changes.
Project goal: to provide insight into the broad spectrum of grassland management
An alternative to purchasing gilts is to breed your own gilts on the farm. This is referred to as “self-reassembly”. Especially in organic pig farming, the sows have to fit the farm. With your own offspring you can...
The chambers of agriculture of the federal states and the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein, together with the ARGE Heumilch, are organizing a test campaign for roughage for the 2022 harvest season in conjunction with a data evaluation and hay championship.
For the 3rd grades of HLBLA St. Florian, “Science Week” was an impressive end to the school year – science and research up close.
Based on the cooperation agreement between Agroscope and the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein, the annual meeting of the life cycle assessment research group and the eco-efficiency research group took place on June 1, 2022.
On June 2, 2022, a Digital VetMed seminar for 30 students from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna took place in Raumberg-Gumpenstein. The theoretical part of the seminar took place at the teaching and research facility, with Dir. Dr. Johann ...
Against the background of a growing world population and increasing demand for food, agricultural production has been intensified in recent decades, which has led to significant environmental impacts.
The “International Pasture Conference” takes place in Europe every two years. The event is primarily intended for the professional exchange of pasture experts from research centers in German-speaking countries. This year's...
The Enns is flourishing – a track record for LIFE projects
This year's Raumberg-Gumpenstein farm animal protection conference took place on May 18, 2022.
Small farms in disadvantaged mountain areas make a valuable contribution to preserving the cultural landscape and food supply.
On May 12th and 13th, 2022, a delegation from Uganda, together with representatives from BOKU Vienna and PIG Austria GmbH, visited the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein.
On May 10th and 11th, the farm4more project team met at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein to discuss the results and strategies in the ongoing life project.
On Wednesday, May 4th In 2022, a group of Norwegian school direktor and education managers visited HBLFA Gumpenstein. Above all, the transfer of knowledge from research in the areas of agriculture, sustainability...
Project goal: The EU project “Circular Agronomics” aims to evaluate practical and technical solutions to improve the current C, N and P cycle in European agricultural systems using life cycle assessment.
Our expert for rare farm animal breeds and the gene pool will be represented again at the Wieselburg trade fair from May 12th to 15th, 2022. If you have any questions about gene preservation, artificial insemination or rare farm animal breeds - ask us...
On May 3, 2022, the Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan Rovshan Sadigbayli and employees found out about agricultural research and the school system at the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein.
On April 28th, representatives from the University of BONN visited the Raumberg-Gumpenstein house. Through the EnergARA project, there is intensive cooperation with the Institute of Agricultural Engineering and the Department of Animal Husbandry Systems, Technology and Emissions.
High concentrate feed costs are currently increasing the desire of many cattle farmers to feed less of it.
