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Institute of Organic Farming (TI-OL)
Institution
Section overview
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- 3.3 'Effect of traditional, improved and standard hybrid PIG GENOTYPES and FEEDING REGIMES on carcass, meat and fat quality in heavy pigs used for premium, regional pork products
- Accompanying research on the National Future Plan of Organic Farming
- Analysis of Knowledge concerning Animal Health in Organic Husbandry and concerning 100% Organic Feeding of Monogastric Livestock
- Analysis of the green house impact of milk production in Norwegian dairy farms
- Animal health plans: improving animal health in organic farming for better processing and product quality: Practical implementation based on modelling of laying hen husbandry
- Animal-related indicators to optimize animal health and animal welfare in dairy goats - 'Stable Schools' as an innovative counseling concept in dairy goat farming
- Application of bio-composts for reduction of Rhizoctonia solani in potatoes
- Assessing the Environmental Eco-benefits of Organic Farming
- Bedding materials and management - their importance for the development of mastitis and infectious events in the organic dairy farming
- Bros on pasture
- Collaborative project: Animal welfare in dairy farming – from self-assessment to national monitoring by system. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Breeding methodically optimized intercropping of Andean Lupin and Maize as well as White Lupin and Oat with the aim of biomass production by using ecosystem services of Lupins. Subproject 2: Evaluation of combinations and cultivation techniques
- Collaborative project: Comparison of innovative methods effectively reducing insect burden in stables, Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Improving yield potential, yield stability and seed quality of lupins as protein plants
- Collaborative project: Increasing resource efficiency by optimising crop and milk production on whole farm level under consideration of animal welfare quality aspects
- Collaborative project: On-farm self-monitoring of animal welfare: feasibility, setting of an assessment framework and technical electronic implementation. Subproject 4
- Collaborative project: Optimisation of methionin production for feeding by using Corynebakterium glutamicum Typ KY 10575 in pilot scale according to EU regulation Nr. 834/2007 and 889/2008 - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Training of heifers on phantom milking robots to reduce stress in automated milking systems. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Winter vetch as whole plants: Potential as preceding crop to maize and in the feeding of fattening pigs. Coordination
- Combination of indoor and outdoor data for improved farm management
- Comparison of fattening and, in some cases, laying performance of innovative dual-use chicken crossings to assess their suitability for private independent poultry farming for organic farming
- Comparison of the fattening and laying performance of six dual-purpose chicken genotypes to assess their suitability for private independent poultry farming for organic farming
- Competence center for demonstration farms in the field of animal protection
- Control of endoparasites in small ruminants systems by Duddingtonia flagrans
- Control of endoparasites in-door
- Control of Endoparasites of Ruminants in Organic Farming by internet-based Decision Tree
- Cultivation of mixed cultures with oil plants to improve land productivity in organic agriculture - nutrient uptake, weed suppression, pest infestation, and product quality
- Developement of increasing yields in organic crop production: Mixed cropping of oilseed rape with cereals
- Developing a concept for the production of goat lamb meat from melked stocks
- Development of data on ingredients, amino acids and vitamins in organic animal feed rations to optimize nutrition in the monogastric feed
- Development, testing, implementation and evaluation of strategies in the areas of animal health, husbandry, feeding, management in ecological pig farming 7
- Effect of feeding species-specific and non-species-specific milk on development of lambs of dairy sheep and goats
- Effect of the structure (milled or pelleted) of feed offered in addition to germinated wheat on feed intake and performance of broilers
- Effects of varying percentages of the genotype Duroc in organic fat-tening pigs on performance, carcass and meat quality
- Enhancing the economic value of organically produced cash crops by optimizing the management of soil fertility, sub-project 7
- Evaluation of the current situation of anthelmintic resistance in first season grazing calves on dairy farms in northern Germany
- Extensive evaluation of data sets generated under the Federal Organic Farming in terms of contributions of the grasslands and grazing to health and well-being of dairy cows in organic farming
- Farm economics of production related experiments for Organic Agriculture
- Fluctuations of the ingredients in organic feed: rapid determination of the ingredients for safe handling of the problem
- Grazing of various endangered cattle breeds in moist grassland under the framework of the agrarian reform and an innovative, sustainable economy in the Biosphere Reserve Riverine Landscape Elbe (RiBeElbe)
- GRÜNLEGUM - Fodder legumes as protein and roughage component in organic poultry and pig feeding
- Health and performance of dairy cows in ecological farming interdisciplinary point of view - an (intervention) study on metabolic disorders and diseases in the udder due to inclusion of forage production, feeding management and husbandry
- Herd health control programs in organic husbandry
- How well do laying hens accept germinated vetch seeds as feed, and how much do they consume?
- Identification of sheep and goats with the FAMACHA© color card for selective deworming
- Implementation of 'Stable Schools' in German organic dairy farms – a pilot study on a concept for animal health and welfare
- Improved contribution of local feed to support 100% organic feed supply to pigs and poultry
- Improvement of protein and energy supply in ruminants and monogastric animals by mixed cropping of maize with runner or scarlet runner beans
- Improvement of protein and energy supply in ruminants and monogastric animals by mixed cropping of maize with runner or scarlet runner beans
- Improving animal welfare of goats in the stable and on the pasture
- Improving the environmental efficiency of wintering areas: validation of a new concept
- Influence of Camelina sativa oilcake in organic broiler feeding on performance, carcass and meat quality
- Lameness prevalence and its risk factors in organic breeding sows kept in housing systems with run for animals
- Legume Futures - Legume-supported cropping systems for Europe
- Long-term effects of mother-bonded rearing on female calves in organic dairy farming
- Management of pasture parasites - Web-based decision trees: Forward planning of pasture management in ruminants to reduce exposure with gastrointestinal worms and to reduce use of veterinary drugs
- Mixed cropping of maize with faba beans
- MIXEd livestock farming for improved sustaiNABiLity and robustnEss of organic livestock. Coordination
- More than a niche? The potential of dam rearing for marketing of milk and male calves
- Nationwide representative survey and analysis of widespread production methods, marketing structures as well as the economic and social situation of organic farms and establishment of a research-organic farming-network
- Occasionally reduced tillage in organic farming and effect on earthworms, springtails (collembolans) and crop yields
- Optimising of potato production in Organic Farming
- Optimising of potato production in Organic Farming: Control of wireworms
- Optimization of organic potato production: processing and discussion of current knowledge, derive further research needs, including research, consulting and practice
- Optimization of parasites-control in grazing cattle
- Optimizing the efficiency of resources in organic crop production
- P flows in organic farms and the special role of grassland
- Pest control in organic winter rape cultivation
- Pilot project to implement endangered cattle breeds in extensive grazing systems in wetland with consideration of the CAP and innovative, sustainable production pattern in the bioshere reserve 'River Landscape Elbe'
- Ploughing up of grassland, ploughing and reseeding of grassland, grassland establishment
- Policy support for organic farming - measures, strategies and farm-level perspectives
- Project coordination and evaluation of climate impact and sustainability of conventional operating systems
- Reduce piglet losses: Effects of prolonged lactation on the constitution of the piglets
- Regional green house gas emissions in clover grass - wheat systems
- Roughage based feeding strategy for organic dairy goats to increase wholesome milk components for human nutrition
- Selection on methionine-rich domestic legumes (Vicia faba, Pisum sativum und Lupinus angustifolius)
- Sociological studies about organic farming
- Studies on the exemplary implementation of sustainable boar fattening on the farming, slaughtering and processing stage in organic farming
- Study on Ammonia Reduction in Dairy Barns Using a Cleaning device on Slatted Floors
- Sustainability indicators and climate relevance of dairy farming and the optimization potential
- Sustainable development of semi-arid grassland utilsation through optimised management of stock densities, recovery periods and carring capacity of organic cattle and sheep farming on the example of Springbockvley, Namibia
- Sustainable minimization of antibiotic drug use due to quarter-selective dry off in dairy cows
- Test of an action and result-oriented animal welfare support in frame of the GAK as well as EPLR
- Transforming Rural Communication
- Treated grains of common vetches (Vicia sativa L.) as protein feed for monogastric farm animals in organic agriculture
- Udder health monitoring as a preventive measure to improve udder health in dairy goats
- Use of biomass ashes as phosphorous source in plant production
- Use of false flax oil in mixtures with other vegetable oils as fuel
- Utilization of a compensatory protein deposition in organic pig
- Verification of the effectiveness of the mechanical regulation of Rumex spp. with WUZI under different locational conditions
Coordinated collaborative projects
Work package leader of collaborative projects
- Climate impact and sustainability of conventional operating systems
- Health and performance of dairy cows in ecological farming interdisciplinary point of view - an (intervention) study on metabolic disorders and diseases in the udder due to inclusion of forage production, feeding management and husbandry
- Local concentrates - productivity, health, behaviour and welfare
- Mixed cropping
Involved in research projects
- Carbon Farming and climate labeling
- Climate Impacts and Sustainability of environmental operating
- Clover silage made from a special use in organic poultry feed (layers, broilers, clover grass silage, outlet, feeding intensity, use recommendations for the practical feeding)
- Collaborative project: On-farm self-monitoring of animal welfare: feasibility, setting of an assessment framework and technical electronic implementation. Subproject 2
- Estimation of ileal nutrient digestibility in native energy and protein feeding stuffs for organic chicken meat production
- Evaluation of breeding lines and varieties of different legumes species (Lupinus spp., Glycine max)
- Indicators for a Payment-by-Results Approach for Animal Welfare Measures and Organic Farming
- Influence of land-use change on soil carbon stocks of temperate and tropical agrar ecosystems
- Influence of ploughing up grassland soils on carbon and nitrogen transformation and their assessment in context of environmental impacts
- Investigation of the clone by site interactions of poplar and willow on agricultural sites throughout Germany - Project Phase II
- Investigations on resting and climbing platforms for dairy goats
- Joint project: bedding materials and management - their importance for the development of mastitis and infectious events in the organic dairy farming
- Minimize the use of antibiotic products in dry cow treatment
- Nation wide representative survey and analysis of common production and marketing systems and establishment of a nation wide research network for organic horticulture
- Pest control in organic farming
- Pest management in organic rapeseed production
- Pest management in organic rapeseed production
- Regional green house gas emissions in clover grass - wheat systems
- Udder health monitoring as a preventive measure to improve udder health in dairy goats
- Use of various endangered cattle breeds in extensive grazing systems in the humid grasslands under the framework of agrarian reform and an innovative, sustainable economy in the Elbe River Landscape Biosphere (RiBeElbe)
Contact
Institute of Organic Farming
(TI-OL)
Trenthorst 32
23847 Westerau
Schleswig-Holstein
Germany
Phone: +49 4539 88 80 - 0
Fax: +49 4539 88 80 - 120
Email: oel(@)thuenen.de