At the moment, we are on the West coast of the half island of Jutland,
where we have a very high level of production of pigs
and cattle.
We have arranged
that this farm has become a demonstration farm.
This farm has three different varieties of rye and is also growing
a lot of rye for their feed production in their pig production.
We already know that rye has a lower
CO2 emission per kilogram
of grain produced.
When we look at nitrogen consumption we see that rye uses
40 kilograms less per hectare compared to wheat
to be able to produce the same amount of yield per hectare.
The nitrogen that we put into the crop,
counts for more than 80% of the total CO2 emission.
So 40 kilograms means a lot.
The goal of having
this test farm is actually to collect data,
agricultural data,
and these data will then be delivered to Blonk Consultants
so we can get an estimate of the CO2
efficiency of each crop on the farm.
The benefit here at this farm is
actually that they have more sandy soils in this area.
They can grow more yield on the same area
with hybrid rye compared with wheat.
The new cap reform from EU, which will be imposed
on Danish farmers starting in 2023, is focused on the fact that
farmers needs to have a crop rotation.
When we look about five or six years into the future
we will have spring varieties of hybrid rye too.
So these spring varieties will fit very well into the crop rotation.
Hybrid rye has become a fairly large
crop in Denmark over the past 15 years,
growing from 30,000 hectares up to 120,000 hectares at the moment.
And I would foresee that that will
rise much higher in the near future.