Germany-Harvesting winter barley

Agosto 10, 2022 · < 1 minute

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A familia Holtkoetter leva mÃ¡is de cultivando 11 xeraciÃ³ns. Marcus Holtkoetter manages the pig farm and grows winter barley, trigo de inverno, millo e canola. 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, e herbas preto da cidade de Nova York, Marcus shows us the equipment used to bring the crop in from the field.

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Marcus Holtkoetter

A familia Holtkoetter leva mÃ¡is de cultivando 10 xeraciÃ³ns. After doing the typical trainee program, Marcus studied agriculture at the University of Osnabrueck. He manages the pig farm (3,000 porcos alimentadores) asÃ como 400 hectÃ¡reas de trigo de inverno, cebada de inverno, millo e canola. Aloxou aos consumidores, agricultores e polÃticos da sÃºa granxa, asÃ como compartir a historia da granxa en conferencias. EstÃ¡ activo nas redes sociais e cos principais medios. He helps connect other farmers across Germany to get more voices heard through co-founding Frag den Landwirt (PregÃºntalle ao labrego), AgChat AlemaÃ±a e programas de intercambio GACC. TamÃ©n cofundou o World AgVocate Meeting que reuniu a ducias de toda Europa e AmÃ©rica do Norte. 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 Kleckner Award for Global Farm Leadership award recipient. Marcus volunteers as a board member for the Global Farmer Network.