For plates, fuel,
and animals

The yellow-flowering crop is sold by farmers via traders directly to oil mills and refineries and from there to consumers.

Rapeseed oil - Germany's most popular cooking oil - is marketed in two variants: cold-pressed and refined. Cold pressing preserves the nutty flavor and healthy ingredients. Refined rapeseed oil is neutral in taste and good for frying. But the biggest fraction of the produced oil goes directly into bio-fuels. Even after consumption, cooking rapeseed cooking oil may have a second live in bio-fuel - making Diesel cars cleaner even without software. And nothing is lost, as the “cake” that is left from the rapeseeds after extracting the oil becomes fodder for animals – one of the few protein-rich fodder types grown in Europe.

• Butter and margarine
• Fat for French fries, lard cakes or similar
• Fine salad oil
• Technical oil
• Car fuel, biodiesel
• Dishwashing and washing detergents
• Rapeseed honey
• Rapeseed cake (animal fodder)

Mustard looks like rapeseed in the field, its flowers are yellow and resemble the dandelion. Nevertheless, there are white, brown and black mustard. This is due to the color of the seed. Important to know: the darker the color the spicier the mustard.

Two parts of the mustard are mainly used in two different ways: the seeds for human consumption and oil products and the vegetative plant itself as cover crop solo or in mixture with other species for green manure. Of course, these are two completely different types of cultivation. For seeds the cultivation goes from spring to fall, and as cover crop from summer to spring.

Mustard breeding and seed distribution is a real niche, the market is small. Mustard seeds (as opposed to biomass) are mainly processed into mustard oil for the chemical cosmetics industry.

• Table mustard
• Mustard oil

Table mustard can be produced on a large industrial scale or in the traditional artisanal way. More than ninety percent of our table mustard is made by mixing mustard flour with water as a byproduct of mustard oil extraction. This mustard is cheap.

Small manufactories, however, use the whole grain as well as mustard oils. KWS has been producing this table mustard since 2020 - purely organically using traditional methods in the Einbeck mustard mill. KWS' own variety MARTIGENA, the only variety ever low in bitter substances, is turned into KWS SENFLIEBE, a white mustard with small amounts of black, enriched with syrup from KWS sugar beet. One hectare of MARTIGENA produces 5,000 jars of KWS SENFLIEBE.

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Mustard oils support digestion. Therefore, mustard is very useful with fatty meat dishes.

There are two forms: Forage oats for horse feeding and quality oats, also called “hulled oats” for human consumption. Forage oats are cleaned after harvest, sometimes crushed for better digestibility, fed to horses. The food/ milling industry places high demands on quality oats. This regards, for example, the “hullability” (easy removal of the husks), grain size, moisture, and purity. Oat grains for human consumption, after sieving and cleaning, are separated from their husks in a hulling machine and kilned (lightly roasted), steamed and dried.

• Porridge, oatmeal
• Superfood-bar
• Oat milk
• Ingredient in ready-made food (soups, vegetable and meat dishes)
• Horse feed
• As ingredient in cosmetics

KWS offers dry yellow and green fodder or grain peas. What KWS does not offer are green vegetable peas, which supermarkets sell in cans or frozen. Nevertheless, KWS peas are in modern food products: The dried peas are in vogue as a plant-based protein. Processors are extracting the high value protein (plus starch and fiber) as raw material for meat substitutes as an alternative to imported soy-protein. Vegan, climate-friendly, gluten-free nutrition based on pea proteins offers great market potential. Dry Peas are also used as protein component in animal feed-mixtures.

• Pea flour processed to high-protein bread and pasta
• Meat substitutes: pea protein (plus starch and fiber) extract in vegan sausages, burger patties, etc.
• Dairy alternatives (pea drink)
• Vegetable spreads
• Protein component in animal feed-mixtures

In Europe, mainly winter rye is grown. Because its roots are deeply branched, it produces reliable yields even in dry periods. Rye can tolerate temperatures as low as minus 25 degrees Celsius, making it the frost-hardiest cereal. It is harvested by combine harvesters in July and August.

Most rye becomes animal feed or is used for bioethanol and biogas production. In refineries, up to 10 percent rye is added to fuel.

• Rye bread
• Mixed-type bread (wheat and rye)
• Animal feed
• Bio-fuel
• Spirits (such as vodka and whisky)

New Onboarding Product: Rye Crackers

KWS offers winter and spring barley. It is differentiated on the basis of the ears into two-rowed forms with one strong and full grain per attachment point and multi-rowed forms with weaker grains. Two-row spring barley is often used as malting barley for making beer.

• Pearl barley (Graupen)
• Groats
• Malt coffee