Performance
Performance of Hofgut Neumühle
| Representative | Bezirksverband Pfalz - a special community in Palatinate | |
| Our Business | Instruction of agricultural trainees in addition to vocational college and further vocational training of adults in competent keeping and using productive livestock; carrying out of practical tests and the publications of their results; giving lectures; public relations and exhibitions. | |
| Education system | We do about 120 courses and seminars a year with 2500 participants to train people in competent keeping and using dairy cows, beef cattle, pigs, sheep, horses, fallow deer and poultry. To take best care of our clients we manage a canteen with serving meals prepared by own staff and a boarding school. | |
| National school of cattle and meat trading | ||
| This private school is the only technical college for management trainees in cattle and meat business and teaches from April until September. | ||
| Tests and experiments | ||
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We examine practical questions of dairy production, meat production
with pigs and beef cattle, calf rearing and the quality of livestock
products. Techniques of livestock keeping, systems of feeding, feed production and quality of conservation, farmyard manure disposal under ecologically beneficial aspects and also first testings of new farm equipment can be subjects of different experiments in our institute. |
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Farm characteristics
- 150 ha (371 acres) pasture for green forage, hay and silage, 40 ha (99 acres) cultivation of grains, 5 ha (12 acres) biotope
- altitude: 250 - 350 m NN (above sea level)
- average amount of precipitation per year: 700 mm (27,6 inches)
- average temperature per year: 8,6 °C
- 65 dairy cows, pedigree breeding of German Holstein
- 60 calves and heifers
- suckler herd with 12 cows, Glanrind - regional breed, maintenance breeding
- 55 breeding sows, German Landrace, Pietrain and Hybrids
- 1000 fattening pigs, piglets and gilts per year
- sheep flock with 200 ewes, pedigree breeding of German Merino Sheep
- 35 employees, consisting of 17 agricultural experts and 18 people working in administration, kitchen and cleaning staff, plus 7 trainees
Livestock Production
| Dairy cows: | 9 607 kg milk with 4,15 % fat content and 3,47 % protein, milk quota of 620 000 kg per year | |
| Breeding sows: | 2,3 litters per sow and year with 22,5 piglets for marketing
< 15 % loss of piglets farrowing interval: 150 days (inclusive gilts from first insemination) |
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| Fattening pigs: (30 - 125 kg) |
870 g daily weight gain 1 : 2,85 feed conversion ratio 57 % lean meat from carcass < 0,5 % loss of animals |
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| Fattening bulls: | 1 050 g daily weight gain | |
| Breeding ewes: |
lambing rate 210 % lamb rearing proportion 197 % |
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Come and see us...........!!!!
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Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Viehhaltung Hofgut Neumühle
67728 Münchweiler an der Alsenz Telefon +49 (0)6302 - 603-0 Fax +49 (0)6302 - 603-50 info@neumuehle.bv-pfalz.de www.hofgut-neumuehle.de |
