Agriculture and beet cultivation
Farms
Since Südzucker was founded, the company has operated its own farms in Germany, and later also in Poland and Moldova, in the vicinity of the processing locations.
- Cultivation of wheat, sugar beet, corn, chicory, rapeseed, soybeans, faba beans, and other crops
- Partially organic farming, organic mixed feed production, organic turkey fattening, biogas production
- Advancement of modern cultivation methods and knowledge transfer into practice
- Kirschgartshausen experimental farm: further development of sugar beet cultivation methods, biodiversity
BGD Bodengesundheitsdienst GmbH
- EUF soil testing for all important nutrients as well as humus for agriculture and private sector
- Mechanical, GPS-assisted soil sampling; support of site-specific fertilization
- Fertilizer advice and fertilizer requirement determination according to fertilizer ordinance
- Greenhouse gas accounting for agriculture
- Examination of organic fertilizers
- Animal feed testing
- Virus testing on grapevines, hops, seed potatoes, fruit trees, etc. (ELISA, PCR)
- qPCR analyses of quarantine bacterial pests in seed potatoes and SBR/Stolbur in sugar beets
