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LfL - Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Animal Husbandry (ILT)
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Coordinated projects
- 'Collaborative project: Development of a control module for automatic guidance of robot scrapers, devices for cleaning and scattering cubicles as well as selfdrive mixer feeders – Subproject 1'
- Advanced cattle feeding on pasture through innovative pasture management
- Advancement of NIRS as a monitoring tool for producing biogas
- Advancement of NIRS as a monitoring tool for producing biogas and applying fermentation residues
- Amarant a supplier for biogas rich in trace elements: Monitoring by flow-through fermenters
- Amaranth as trace element-rich biogas substrate: time surveys in flow fermenters
- Amendment of the TA Luft in Bavaria: consequences for animal welfare-oriented livestock farming and its location aspect - immission control vs. animal welfare?
- Analysis of emmission factors derived from loafing yards and open air stables
- Automatic behavior and performance data collection of laying hens kept in groups
- Bavarian joint research "FutureIOT - Smart integrative solutions to urban and agricultural areas", subproject: cow tracking
- Benchmark system for biogas plants
- Biogas Initiative forAgriculture
- Biogas measurement program III
- Biogas technology on environmentally compatible slurry recycling and energy production in water protection areas
- Bioindicators of biogas fermentation. Subproject 2: Microbial communities in single-phase systems
- Cattle Innovation Network - sustainable cattle farming in Germany in consideration of animal welfare, environmental impact and social acceptance
- Classification of greenhouse gas and energy balance of agricultural biogas installations
- Collaborative project: (German) consortial project to prevent tail docking in pigs - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Barrier System for Avian Influenza in Free-range Poultry Farming – Subproject 4
- Collaborative project: Development and evaluation of an automatic optical sensor system for monitoring the body condition of dairy cows – Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Development and evaluation of an optical sensor system to measure the feed intake of cattle and to provide feed according to their requirements - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Development of a machine to harvest the roots of the Russian dandelion (Taraxacum koksaghyz) as industrial raw material. Subproject 1: harvesting and crop trials (LfL)
- Collaborative project: Development, design, building and evaluation of components and machines to place and recover drip irrigation pipes in potato production (Opti-Tropf-Tech) - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Development, testing and evaluation of a positioning system and its software applications for cattle on pastures in lowlands and mountainous regions based on GPS- and GSM-technology - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Experimentation field 'Digitalization in the Milk Production Process Chain ' - Demonstration, testing and evaluation of the functionality, compatibility and interoperability of new digital products and services along the agricultural milk production chain. Subproject 1: Coordination
- Collaborative project: Finalizing of the GPS-GSM tracking system with software applications for cattle on mountain pastures - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Further development of a controler unit for the autonomous guidance of manure removal, cubicle cleaning and bedding machines - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Improvement in herd management through cost-effective, hybrid localisation and intelligent data integration - subproject F
- Collaborative project: Innovative LED luminaire for increased demands in agricultural livestock farming. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Intelligent LED light for the functional areas of 'feeding', 'resting' and 'walking' in the dairy farming. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Intelligent LED Luminaire for Feeding, Resting and Activity Area in Dairy Farming II. Subproject 2
- Collaborative Project: Intensification of the anaerobic degradation of biomass for methane production from renewable resources (IBMN). Project: process engineering, process automation, and microbiology. a. Optimization of process engineering and process automation, process monitoring and data management.
- Collaborative project: Technical-economical evaluation and validation of a prediction model for the degradation kinetics of lignocellulosic feedstock for use in the flexible operation of the biogas process in practice
- Comparative life cycle assessment: use of disposable and reusable pipes in drip irrigation to potatoes
- Comparative studies on N dynamics and nitrate efflux under permanent grassland
- Comparison of circular crates and box-stands in farrowing house in terms of ethological and process parameters
- Conception, creation and operation of an experimental digester plant for handling issues relating to input materials and microbiology in agricultural biogas plants
- Continuation of an approach to develop batch trials for determining gas output, modelling based on existing and novel data sets
- Continuation of studies on automatic submission of feed mixtures for cattle
- Control of biogas processes through the influence of doped zeolite on sludge - B1 - BRIDGE 7
- Controlling cannibalism in the keeping of pigs
- Conversion to organic dairy farming
- Cow-calf contact systems on dairyfarms in Southern Germany - Development of indicators for evaluating animal welfare and milk yield
- Crop production systems of the future: Biodiverse - soil-friendly - digital
- Demonstration Project medicinal plants (CAMEL); development of a system for gentle harvest of valerian roots
- Determination of emission factors from yards and ventilated stables
- Determination of emission factors in animal welfare-oriented, freely ventilated cattle stables in Bavaria - extending and updating the database against the background of intended tighter immission control legislation "EF Bavaria"
- Determination of emission factors inanimal welfare-orientated, freelyventilated cattle stables in Bavaria
- Determination of emission factors on animal welfare oriented freely ventilated cattle barns in Bavaria
- Developable stable construction concepts for pig fattening and piglet rearing farms
- Development and optimization of a practical procedure for germination, malting and ensiling of soybean and soybean germination and analytical studies of the potential as protein feed for poultry and pig feeding
- Development and trial of an innovative process for the production of high-quality domestic protein feed from lucerne as well as lucerne and clover grass for pigs and ruminants
- Development and validation of a quality assurance system for mobile NIRS systems for measuring nutrient concentrations in liquid farm manures
- Development of a testing machine to examine the structure of feed samples
- Development of consulting documents under the new regulation on installations for handling substances hazardous to water (AwSV) and the new funding regulations under the framework plan (RPL) 2014
- Development of future-oriented concepts for agricultural construction with wood - from planning to deconstruction
- Development of future-proof concepts for agricultural buildings with wood - from planning to deconstruction
- Development of genomic breeding evaluation methods
- Development of housing and management strategies to avoid cannibalism in piglets and fattening pigs
- Development of indicators for efficient systems to dry hay in barns and evaluation of overall farm impacts of using barn dried hay as the main forage component on dairy farms
- Development of the data basis for the organization of work on dairy farms
- Development of tools for the economic actual/target analysis in dairy farms
- Effect of ad libitum milk feeding on performance, health and behavioral parameters in German Simmental calves
- Efficiency, reduced emissions and CO2 supply through optimal engine settings for biogas cogeneration plants for distributed power
- Electronic identification of sheep and goat traceability and traceability
- Emission and performance of biogas combustion engines depending on the engine maintenance
- Energy efficiency and emissions of biogas recycling
- Enhancing the economic value of organically produced cash crops by optimizing the management of soil fertility
- Enhancing the economic value of organically produced cash crops by optimizing the management of soil fertility, sub-project 5
- Enhancing the monitoring platform for the use ofdigital technologies in Bavarian agriculture
- Evaluation of pH-lowering systems by acidification to reduce ammonia emissions in the stable and field
- Evolving barn construction concepts for pig fattening and piglet rearing farms
- Examination and evaluation of technical measures to reduce the heat stress in dairy cows
- Examination and evaluation of technical measures to reduce the heat stress in dairy cows II
- Examination of the use of air purification equipment in agricultural livestock farming in Bavaria as a basis for process improvements - second phase
- Expert group bioenergy resource management in Bavaria
- FABES. Subproject 2: Microbiological optimization of hydrolysis
- FABES. Subproject 5: Ecological-economic evaluation
- Farm monitoring, comparative study of alternative process chains for raising and and fermenting of grassland growth - Subproject optimization of the process chains of grassland harvest
- Farm-based biogas plants made of textile materials
- Field project to establish mobile slurry separation on grassland farms
- Formation of a network for the creation of an animal welfare concept taking into account the sensory perception of cows for research into innovative husbandry and management solutions for dairy cows and their offspring - subproject 7
- Further development of methods forrecording, modelling and assessing emissions in livestock buildings -subproject 4
- Further development of the analysis of activity and performance data for early detection of claw disease in dairy cows in working farms
- Further development of the appliance for fully automatic hanging of wire in high trellis systems in hops: optimization, testing and production of the pilot series
- Grow-Workshop:AgTech EuropeanFarmer Academy
- Hygienisierungspotenzials evaluation of the biogas process in model systems as well as identification of the current phytosanitary risk in Bavaria biogas pilot plant using the example of the quarantine-antine pests (QSO) of potato
- Implementing regional nutrient concepts in manure processing
- Improve claw health of dairy cows by continuous individual animal activity analysis
- Improvement of group housing of horses by ethological and work economically optimized feeding systems
- Improvement of the claw health of dairy cows
- Improvement of the nutrient supply of organically cultivated land through the treatment of legume growth (eg clover grass) in biogas plants
- Improving claw health by claw cleaning systems
- Improving energy efficiency in agriculture in Bavaria
- Improving the organization of work in Bavarian dairy farms through analysis, benchmarking and optimization of different farming systems
- Influence of a supplement of oregano on biological performance, egg quality and animal welfare indicators of laying hens
- Installation and testing the interval operation of the biogas plant at the Experiment Station Grub
- Investigation and assessment of constructional and technical measures to reduce heat stress
- Investigation and optimization of the functional reliability of integrated passage height according to the EC Eco Ordinance
- Investigation of different methods for the mechanical killing of intermediate crops for erosion-reducing processing methods of maize to reduce the use of total herbicides
- Joint project: Progress with competence and specialist knowledge for animal well-being, environmentally friendly and sustainable livestock farming. Subproject 14
- Joint project: Quantifying the effect of mineral additives biogas from the fermentation of renewable resources and its verification in practice (Subproject 2)
- Labour Economic Aspects for improving the organization of work in Bavarian dairy farms
- Management audit biogas
- Mapping of Soil OrganicMatter
- Mechanical grub control in the Bavarian Forest, sub-project equipment technology
- Microbiological process optimization of biogas technology - the diagnosis of microbial populations and identification of key organisms in biogas digesters
- Mobile housing system for the outdoor keeping of laying hens: Project III: Ethological conditions of semi-natural rearing systems
- Monitoring and evaluation of innovative practice facilities - continuation of the scientific monitoring of the Bavarian pilot and demonstration biogas plants
- Monitoring of biogas systems
- Operator Guide for optimum plant operation (Biogas)
- Optimization of decentral soy bean processing using online process control via near infrared spectroscopy
- Optimization of energy production and use on LVFZ (Educational, experimental and technical centre for dairy farming) Almesbach and visualization of energy data for knowledge transfer
- Optimization of environmental attitudes in birth stall and piglets in the rearing
- Optimization of process technology
- Optimization of site-specific gas productivity of species and varieties comparison of potential renewable resources in Bavaria
- Optimization of the internal energy use with networked energy systems on farms
- Optimizing the process chain to extract methane from grassland regrowth by biogas technology
- Options for reducing ammonia emissions through microbial manure treatment and manure additives
- Peat conserving agricultural management measures
- Peatland farming for climate protection Allgäu
- Pig husbandry on straw: influence ofquantity, straw length, treatment andsoiling of straw bedding on ammoniaand methane emissions
- Pilot project biogas plants
- Potential for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Bavarian peatlands - EmiAdditiv
- Practicability of indicators for operational self-checking of animal welfare in the cattle farming
- Practical introduction of methods with reduced pesticide use in sugar beet cultivation
- Practical support of studies on recommendations for animal-friendly dehorning
- Procedural costs of young cattle in dairy farming
- Procedural, fermentational and agro-ecological impacts of an enhanced use of sugerbeet in biogas plants
- Procedural, fermenting biological and agroecological impact of increased use of sugar beets in biogas plants - plant monitoring and system assessment
- Process acceleration and sanitation in biogas plants by connecting an Hydrolysephase / level
- Process engineering, environmental and economic studies on the production and processing of protein feed for poultry based on larvae of the black soldier fly
- Process optimization by additives in biogas technology
- Production of high-quality raw milk - Residues of cleaning and disinfecting agents
- Production of quality forage with in-house barn hay drying systems
- Project Group Digitalization in Agriculture
- Quantitative climate balance of agricultural measures and procedures
- Rapeseed straw as a biogas substrate - Pre-treatment to improve anaerobic digestibility
- Reducing anitbiotic employment in dairy cattle farming by selectively drying off milking cows - transfer into practice
- Reducing the use of antibiotics in dairy cattle by selective drying off
- Reduction of wildlife losses during mowing exemplarily for fawns - wildlife danger areas and effectiveness of detection and chilling methods: subproject 1 wildlife biology
- Research Project Wild Plants mixtures: possibilities and limits of energy recovery from wild plants mixtures in biogas plants
- Residential agricultural buildings in timber construction without preventive chemical wood preservative (use class 0)
- Resource adaptive mobile assistance system for complex agricultural machinery
- Scientific monitoring and optimization of a new biogas process from Hörmann Energy GmbH for the efficient exploitation of renewable resources on the basis of a thermophilic hydrolysis using bacterial cultures selectively enriched
- Scientific monitoring of pilot plants for biogas production - Economy
- Scientific monitoring of the pilot farms
- Selection, evaluation and optimization of methods and techniques for the application of liquid manure or liquid digestate in maize
- Small freestall barns dairy farming
- Small measures to improve animal welfare in raising of dairy cattle in existing stables
- Smart LEDs functions in dairy cattle farming for food, rest and walk
- Soil exposure by heavy machinery in the arable land
- Specific activity, toxicity and physiological Supplementierungstests on key activities in the biogas process to provide a 'on-site diagnostic service ' for the optimization of plant operation
- Specification of the necessary size of the lying area in calf husbandry according to TSchNutztVO §5 (1)
- Stationary plant for solid and liquid manure, biowaste and biogas substrates
- Studies of various types of pain management in view of the most animal-friendly destroying of horn-producing cells and its practical feasibility
- Studies on automatic submission of mixed feed for cattle
- Studies on boar fattening and for keeping lactating sows in pens that allow movement
- Studies on the behavior and the hoof health of fattening bulls to optimize the lying areas
- Studies on the lying behavior of dairy cows to optimize the cubicle
- Studies to improve the animal welfare of pigs: Alternative stables for fattening pigs, piglets and insemination sows as well as movement bays for nursing sows
- Study of long-term behavior of the electrical efficiency biogas-powered CHP in practice
- Study the effects of intense crushing of maize straw in rotary combines the Fusariumbelastung in the following crop winter wheat
- Systematic comparison of modern hay ventilation procedures at the LVFZ Achselschwang (operation part Hübschried) and economic investigations in haymilk and silage operations
- Testing and evaluation of the impact of additional tools for precision airseeders for mulch sowing of corn
- Testing of welfare stables for weaned piglets in view of animal welfare and practicability
- Testing, evaluation and demonstration of technology for mechanical weed control in mulch crops providing a high degree of soil cover
- Testing, evaluation and optimisation of automated procedures for mechanical weed control.
- Testing, evaluation and optimization of automated methods for mechanical weed control
- Use of grassland to produce biogas. Subproject: Monitoring of biogas production systems
- Use of rubber mats in husbandry of pregnant sows
- Using straw of grain maize as biogas substrate - ensiling properties, economic processing and fermentability in biogas plants
- Web-based evaluation and optimization of biogas plants in inventory
- WeideInsight: Added value in herd management through cost-effective, hybrid localisation and smart data integration
- Working economy in ecological pig farming
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- A Multi tasking AI assisted Robot System for Individualized Management of Crops and Weeds
- Calves of organic dairy farming in Bavaria - a status quo analysis and market potentials of cow-based calf rearing and organic veal fattening
- Continuation of an approach to develop batch trials for determining gas output, modelling based on existing and novel data sets
- Continued development of erosion prevention methods in maize - glyphosate-free in conventional as well as alternative practices in organic farming
- Cooperative test Bavaria concerning the use of herb-rich sowings as biogas substrate (phase II)
- Costs of the new pig keeping regulation
- Cow-calf contact systems on dairyfarms in Southern Germany - Development of indicators for evaluating animal welfare and milk yield
- Development of enzyme containing preparations for hydrolysis in the biogas system
- Economic and ecological consequences evaluation of measures to reduce greenhouse gases
- Establishment of a research center for drylandagriculture in northern Bavaria
- Evolving barn construction concepts for pig fattening and piglet rearing farms
- Examination of different freezed catch crops and seed process before soybean
- Experience with the cultivation of soybeans in the practice of organic farming
- Functional traits of sows with suckling piglets - Contribution through breeding and restocking
- FUNGAS - Enzymes of anaerobic fungi improve biogas yields from residues and enable biogas production in small biogas plants in the INTERREG-region
- Implications on different methods of tail docking in lambs
- Integrated weed management (IWM) in arable farming
- Is the cultivation of hazelnuts intended for fruit production in Bavaria economically feasible?
- Linking collected operational data, greenhouse gas (GHG) models and geodata as a basis for the ex ante assessment of GHG mitigation options in agriculture (preliminary study)
- Low-emission liquid manure grassland Franconia
- Nationwide monitoring program for assessment of novel biomass-biogas plants
- NH3 measurement with slurry application with additives
- Non-food for feed: By-products of food handling and processing in pig and poultry nutrition to reduce food competition between humans and livestock while maintaining productivity and environmentally friendly production
- Optimization of slurry application, taking into account the amendment of the fertiliser ordinance and the NEC (National Emission Ceilings) directive. Subproject technique
- Optimization of the internal energy use with networked energy systems on farms
- Permanent driveways, strip tillage and drip irrigation, work package soil - soil water balance
- Possibilities for reducing ammonia emissionsthrough manure additives - influencing factors onthe mode of action
- Process engineering and agri-environmental impact of an increased use of sugar beet in biogas plants - processing optimization / mirobiology
- Recycling of organic wastes: residues and contaminant levels
- Research project Crop Production Systems of the Future - Biodivers - Soil Conservation - Digital Subproject Biodiversity
- Specification of the necessary size of the lying area in calf husbandry according to TSchNutztVO §5 (1)
- Testing various methods of mechanical weed control in organically grown soybeans
- Testing, evaluation and optimisation of automated procedures for mechanical weed control.
- Using corn maize straw as a biogas substrate - its silage performance, economic processing and fermentability in the biogas unit
- Using straw of grain maize as biogas substrate - ensiling properties, economic processing and fermentability in biogas plants, subproject microbiology
- Yield stability, establishment and environmental effects of perennial energy crops
Contact
LfL - Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Animal Husbandry
(ILT)
Vöttinger Str. 36
85354 Freising
Bavaria
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)8161 8640-3450
Fax: +49 (0)8161 8640-5555
Email: TierundTechnik(@)LfL.bayern.de
