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More sustainable milk

Authority

Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Verkehr, Landwirtschaft und Weinbau

Federal State

Rhineland-Palatinate

Contact

Stiftsstraße 9
55116 Mainz

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

More sustainable milk

Project description

Rhineland-Palatinate dairy farms are struggling because of

- Increasing requirements of the food retail trade for feeding

- Stronger linking of subsidies to environmental performance

- Increased price volatility

- Climate change + extreme weather

The question arises as to how individual farms can adapt to these changes and requirements and how the Rhineland-Palatinate dairy industry can maintain its competitiveness.

The motivation is to use the locational advantages in Rhineland-Palatinate to strengthen the competitiveness of the dairy chain. The comprehensive requirements are to be translated by new technologies into a more sustainable production system that has a lower CO2 footprint and closes the local nutrient cycle. Innovations (e.g. NIR analysis, site-specific sowing and fertilization), which are used on the farms in an overarching production system, evaluated and transferred to other farms, help to achieve this.The aim is to improve the competitiveness of Rhineland-Palatinate dairy farms by enabling them to produce more sustainable milk.

Final report

Results and the Final report will be found here, as soon as the project is completed.

Key words

  • Equipment and machinery
  • Outdoor horticulture and woody crops (incl. viticulture, olives, fruit, ornamentals)
  • Plant nutrients
  • Food security, safety, quality, processing and nutrion
  • Supply chain, marketing and consumption
  • Climate change (incl. GHG reduction, adaptation and mitigation, and other air related issues)
  • Fodder and feed

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020

OG contact information

Bezirksverband Pfalz, Lehr- u. Versuchsanstalt für Viehhaltung, Hofgut Neumühle
Neumühle 1
67728 Münchweiler an der Alsenz

Phone: 0049630260331

Email: j.steinfort@neumuehle.bv-pfalz.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Researcher
  • Industry

Begin of project

2022

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

2,196,000

NUTS3 CODE

DEB31

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