How that powerplant idea developed. First, main issue in organic farming nitrogen.

Large precentage of it comes from the air, fixed by legume bacteria. So every fivesix they grove clover grass. Earlier it was a habit tu cut clover 3-4 times a year and
leave it on the field. But that wrong step-next generation of clover grow bad and
also nitrogen is wasted by evaporation. Twelve years ago they got idea of processing
clover grass into heat and electricity, and as a residue they have biogas slury as a
very valuable fertilizer which they wouldn't have otherwise. And it's a good circlethrown into the box, move up by elevator to digester with temperature inside of
45C, and its full of methanogenic bacteria, i.e. bacteria that produce methane out
of organic matter. The biogas contains 50% of mathane afterwards stored in rubber
tent and the engine burns the biogas like a diesel engine, produces energy with a
generator and produces like nusproduct heat that can be used to heat the objects on
the farm and also to dry grains in summer time when they harvest it.( Materialclover and grass cut and putted into the silo). The second component they put
is a menure and every day is taken and putted into digestor so there are no big piles
throghout the farm. First 2-3 years they relayd only of these two components but
they realized its not easy to digest it-fibery, pumping it difficult, nitrogen transforms
into amonia which poisenous for bacteria. so aditionally they are using corn silagethe risult very good, great improvement in digesting process so nowadays they put
abot 5 % of it into digestor every day. 2 ha of corn on their own farm (silo). Thats
good because otherwise they should buy corn silage, even non organic allowed to
certain grade, but that permitted percentage gets lower by the regulations every
year. Carbo-hidrates (corn)Bacteria dont like variation in feed- they prefer same
ingredients, same T, same movement-so every cut get silaged, cut it young because
digestability than higher abou 35-40 ha of clover and grass enough to run the whole
year, electric power 65 kW, small biogas plant. Because in Germany can be find of
500 or even 1MW, but they run with corn silage mainly.
Economically, they try to produce more grain but if they notice higher infection with
hisle or duckweed they leave it for 2 years, the more you cut it better fight against
weeds. But grain-sell, feed pigs. Clover grass silage-1200 t, manure 300-400 t
manure, 200 t of corn silage
10 % of electricity used on the farm, rest sold to public energy system, to the grid.
The maintenance payed by sold energy. Contrators for energy, pipe building were
present at the beginning but they helped them in construction. Nowaydays 60
percent in feed corn-enzimes/chop grass very small. First cut 5-10-th of May, on
some of fields envieromental programme, payed to cut later, but that is abot 5 ha
and other without care of birds
Little bit more of half-human consumption. Triticale, beans, peas-pig. Total 180 ha.
5 times a year silage doesnt permit to grow older, better for digestability. 30-40
percent of burning biogas transformes into energy and 2/3 transf into heat, its
important for biogasplants to be efficient in heat consumption-heating houses, or
even greenhouses, or drying in germany woodchips, grains or slury and selling it like
fertilizer. 450 000 kWha per year produced energy. Slury-they spread it everywhere
spring and second september-beginnig of november, hitrogene storage. Leaching of

nitrogen-not on hot, sunny day, special machines tubes, and put rain water to make
it more liquid more available to plants
Wheat fild-one week ago seeded, before that clover and grass. Because wheat and
spelt have high demands for nitrogen thats why planted after clover. where the
wheat is not still germinated to the surface, it is beove the ground against the weeds
used comb harrow-blind howing.
Spelt field-Three days ago, with spelt not nude. They plow the remainings of clover,
than prepare seed bed with rotating harrow for the grains. So move remainings to
prevent it growing further.
Three different types of old species-spelt T.spelta , emmer T.dicoccum, einkorn T.
monococcum-the oldest type of these curious, he thinks is not high yield but some
bakers like to put it in the bread and pay high price. Naturland sells to bakery they
mill it byself. Spelt in higher ammounts. Emmer at first used summer, full of wheatthey multiply it now on the farm. Einkorn seed in northern Germany bought.
Not problem of lodging, and eikorn even more and thay take care of amount of
nitrogen.
Soil compaction usually big issue on the fields-small as possible tractors with wide
tyres for placing the pressure, for easy works, but cant be avoid there is slury tank
10 cubic meter, combines for harvest,choppers for grass and clover-very heavy. Soils
vunerable to compaction-wet in under soil, loamy and must take care. The clay
increases with the depth. Certain share of silt, less silt here. From the olders ice ages
so share of lime lower. Ca bridges make fractions stabile-bring lime. Rock fosfate 4-5
400 kg per ha like fertilizer, compensation fertilization for what is taken. Phosphorus
in pelates, desolves in ground.
Pests-beans aphids, not problem, fungi rust sometimes, crop rotation prevents and
also crop density is not high, air movement, higher varieties away from soil
No cover crops, because winter grains. In summer legumes, oat, part of triticale
summer. Avoid so much in winter, but eg Triticum in winter more yield. Cover crops
before summer crops-in past years legumes, then had problems with fungi so had
problems in beans with root fungi because they related. Cover c facelia, niger seeds,
grasses, raddish, sunflower, buckwheat.25-30 max legumes, even if they needed,
and from slury enough N.
Rotation: Clover and grass-wheat or spelt-triticale, ruy or oat, not hungry beans or
peas, after 2-3 years-one year of triticale or ruy. So in 5-6 years again clover.