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
- Fertilizer advice for all essential nutrients for agricultural and private use
- Determining fertilizer requirements in accordance with the fertilizer ordinance
- Automated, GPS-guided soil sampling; support for site-specific sampling and fertilization
- Greenhouse gas accounting for agriculture
- Organization and evaluation of manure analyses
- Organization and evaluation of feed testing
- Organization and evaluation of virus testing for grapevines, hops, seed potatoes, fruit trees, etc. (ELISA, PCR)
- Organization and evaluation of qPCR analysis of quarantine bacterial pests in seed potatoes and SBR/Stolbur in sugar beets
Justus Liebig Laboratory
- EUF soil testing
- Analysis of farm manure
- NIRS feed testing
- Testing of plant samples for viral infection (ELISA, PCR)
- Testing of plant samples for bacterial infection (qPCR)
- Accredited according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025