The extensive programme provided by exhibitors at the Field Days will once again centre round variety tests by many leading plant breeding firms. A broad spectrum of proven and new varieties as well as seed from all common crop plants will be shown on the plots. In addition to this a large number of companies, organisations and institutions will be presenting further individual modules of plant production, such as for example fertilising, plant protection and different cropping methods.
A comprehensive range of services and exhibits in two marquees and a number of campus stands on the edges of the trial field will guarantee visitors to the DLG Field Days 2006 a complete palette of information.
The "classic" component in the DLG Field Days programme, the comparison of winter wheat cropping conducted at every event since the first Field Days in 1988, is once again part of the programme. Fifteen participants are presenting their cropping strategies at Baiersr�derhof. These wheat cropping specialists come from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The comparison of winter oilseed rape cropping methods integrated into the DLG Field Days programme for the first time two years ago will also be another highlight for visitors. Eight oilseed rape specialists from the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland and Sweden will be showing their cropping strategies at Baiersr�derhof.
These two comparisons of cropping methods that are being conducted with kind support from the insurance company Vereinigte Hagelversicherung (for wheat) and the oil and protein plant organisation Union zur F�rderung von �l- und Proteinpflanzen (for oilseed rape) are not focusing solely on yields, qualities and business results, but also on information about integrated plant production measures in different region-specific cultivation methods. The crops from both sets of plots will be harvested and the results of the field trials will be evaluated. The presence of so many specialists from Germany and other countries at a single location is unique in Germany. This gives visitors to the DLG Field Days 2006 an opportunity to learn about a wide range of cultivation philosophies, to discuss them with the national and international experts directly at the trial plot, and to draw conclusions by analogy for their own production.
Never before has discussion centred so strongly on the topic of bioenergy and renewable raw materials, covering all aspects of cropping, harvesting and preserving biomasss for energy purposes. That is why the DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft - German Agricultural Society) is highlighting the subject. Together with the renewable raw materials agency Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe (FNR), it is setting up an "Energy from the Field" information center at the DLG Field Days 2006.
The public eye is focusing increasingly on food quality, and in recent years the demands made of raw materials and producers along the production chain have risen constantly. For the first time, therefore, a special exhibition area at the DLG Field Days will be concentrating on the grain value chain, from the field to the final product. Together with the Centrale Marketinggesellschaft der Deutschen Agrarwirtschaft (CMA), the DLG is organising an information center "Grain Enjoyment 2010".
Visitors to the DLG Field Days 2006 will be able to obtain important additional information from the discussion events being held every day in two forum tents specially set up for this purpose at the event. On all three days there will be discussions on topical themes every hour. Some 100 experts from the fields of practical farming, industry, academia and extension services will be talking about production-specific and agri-business issues. These will include quality assurance strategies, performance potential and resistances of new varieties, innovations in plant protection, innovative fertilising systems, green genetic engineering, development perspectives for grain, sugar beet, oilseed rape and oilseed rape oil, perspectives for organic farming, and new agricultural machine processes in plant production.
The crop programme will be supplemented by field demonstrations of special cultivation methods at the event. It is planned to show precision fertilising, boom stability and balance as well as drift behaviour of plant sprayers, automated steering, soil-conserving tyres and minimal tillage strategies 2010. Experts from various institutes and organisations will explain the programmes presented. All this will give visitors to the DLG Field Days 2006 an excellent overview of various machines and systems.
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