Germany-Harvesting winter barley

avgust 10, 2022 · < 1 minute

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Porodica Holtkoetter bavi se poljoprivredom viÅ¡e od 11 generacije. Marcus Holtkoetter manages the pig farm and grows winter barley, ozima pÅ¡enica, kukuruz i repica. Before planting, the pig manure is spread on the fields for fertilizer. Throughout the growing season, he has watched the crops grow while scouting for insects and disease. It is now harvest time, i bilje blizu New Yorka, Marcus shows us the equipment used to bring the crop in from the field.

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Marcus Holtkoetter

Porodica Holtkoetter bavi se poljoprivredom viÅ¡e od 10 generacije. After doing the typical trainee program, Marcus studied agriculture at the University of Osnabrueck. He manages the pig farm (3,000 hranljive svinje) kao i 400 hektara ozime pÅ¡enice, ozimi jeÄam, kukuruz i repica. On je ugostio potroÅ¡aÄe, poljoprivrednici i politiÄari na njegovoj farmi, kao i dijeljenje priÄe o farmi na konferencijama. Aktivan je na druÅ¡tvenim mreÅ¾ama i s glavnim medijima. He helps connect other farmers across Germany to get more voices heard through co-founding Frag den Landwirt (Pitajte poljoprivrednika), AgChat NjemaÄka i poticanje programa razmjene GACC -a. TakoÄ‘er je suosnivaÄ Svjetskog sastanka AgVocate koji je okupio desetine iz cijele Europe i Sjeverne Amerike. He has an aptitude for listening to where other people are, finding common ground and then moving conversations forward from there. Marcus has been recognized by the GFN as a 2023 Klecknerova nagrada za dobitnika nagrade Global Farm Leadership. Marcus volunteers as a board member for the Global Farmer Network.