Farmer from Padborg and his son get a prize from Michael Trolle, Emmelev.
At this year's NutriFair agriculturel exhibition in Fredericia, Emmelev A/S focused on CO2 calculation on growing rapeseed, and in this connection, the suppliers at the exhibition were able to have an agreement of calculation made at the individualfarm level.
One of those who signed up was Jørgen Peter Feldstedt from Padborg, and he was later drawn as the winner of a small competition at the show. The other day, Michael Trolle from Emmelev A/S was therefore on a trip to Southern Jutland to present the prize.
Jørgen Peter Feldstedt still works on the farm, even though he has handed it over to his son, and he thinks it will be exciting to get a calculation of how large the CO2 pressure is when cultivating the rapeseed fields.
He knows Emmelev A/S quite well in connection with the fact that he had chicken feed delivered from the company's production in Rudkøbing. Emmelev was at that time in the grain and feed business with production all over Funen and with the production of a large part of the chicken feed used in Denmark.
Later, the grain and feed business was sold, and Emmelev instead focused on the production of rapeseed oil, biodiesel and protein feed based on rapeseed.
Jørgen Peter Feldstedt's property Søndermarksgård is located near Padborg and largely on the border between Denmark and Germany, and the family runs more than 600 hectares both in Denmark and Germany. In addition, they have a large chickenproduction and supply to slaughterhouses in Germany, and they have previously also had production of slaughter pigs. Today, the pig stables are rented out.
It is a new method for calculating the CO2 footprint of rapeseed production at the single-farm level, which Emmelev A/S is currently working on and testing with several of the suppliers. It was presented at the NutriFair exhibition inFredericia this January, and there was a good interest from suppliers in having the calculations done at home on the farm.
