" The sustainable road is the aim ... "    Biofarmland   Agriculture   Organic Agriculture Mina Hofstetter was Pionieer and Hans Müller (1891-1988) Founder of the organic agriculture. Some of their mainthoughts and aims were: Healthy food comes out of a healthy soil. Less quantity but higher quality. The soil is a living organism- soilmanagement therefore only superficial. Groundcover as often as possible. Compost is the ideal feriliser. Stoneflower is a precious soil improover. Green manuring instead of fallow fields.                         www.bio-suisse.ch                       www.bio-inspecta.ch                        www.fibl.org Rumanian Biocertification: www.ecoinspect.ro Our crop rotation beginns with 2 years of white clover.  These two years  form the basics of our natural ferilisation of the soil and makes it sane. 1.+2.Year: white clover (trifolium repens) , 3. Year: wheat (if eventualy in the future already in 2. year: directly sawed into the clover (mulchseed), has the same positive effect as clover-grass-mix!),  4.Year: Oat or mustard, 5.Year: Triticum spelta, Dinkel, 6. Year: Soja/ ev. Lupins/Fieldbeans as "Nitrogen-refreshing" culture, 7.year: Rye or Barley Gerste, 8.Year: Sunflowers This is our Ideal-thinking of a crop rotation. To us  it seems also important to change it where needed for special conditioned parcels. Yields of 4 tonns wheat, 2,5 tonns sunflower, 2.5 tonns soja per ha are thereby realistic. Our endeavour in the future is to optimise again and again the number of  machining, for example with mulchseeding of cereals directly into the clover. Thereby already in the second Year of the crop rotationcan be achieved yields, having the same positive effect als clover-grass-mix. Ploughless Agriculture  Our system of Manfred and Friedrich Wenz produces its fertility without any additions of fertiliser. The ploughless cultivation system tries to maintain the natural set-up and structure of the soil, which is the livingroom for the earthworm and many other important soil-microorganisms. Therefore the soil is slacked in a depth to maximal 5 cm. With that, high earthworm populations can be acheived which make the soil ferile and work on it naturally and efficient. A good earthworm population can in the long-term dissolve plough compressions and other soil compressions. A healthy soil saves and infiltrates water, reduces pollutants, recycles without losses and produces our food. It is crumbly, humos and alive. More about the system of Manfred und Friedrich Wenz  you can find in the following movie in german: „phlougless agriculture, biodynamic, by Wenz“. To receive at: Frumenta AG, Bereich Verlag, Stollenrain 10, Postfach 344, CH-4144 Arlesheim, Fax: +41 706 96 44 Advantages of the system: +         High surfaceperformance through minimal soilmanagement +         Low  need of driving forces +         Low need of machines +         increases the ground load capacity +         Maintaining of the natural set-up and structure of the soil, produces good structure +         Produces fertile soil with the means of the own field +         No need of ferilisers (Nitrogenfixationdue to a high stake of legumins in the crop rotation) +      Low  running costs +         in praxis tried an tested system ( Manfred and Friedrich Wenz) +         low pressure of diseases in the crop rotation trough high organic activity in the soil. +         High  quality of products ( wheatproteincontents of > 14 % possible!) +         Low investment costs +         High degree of independence of the farm from third persons +         low peak financing because of ommited investationa in aids such as feriliser, pesticides... and therefore lower financial risk +         more constant yields   Know more about earthworms, seeds or plantoil? (in german) Nature itsself is susainable - man only has to let it  time.   top