business description

Saatzucht Edelhof

address: Edelhof 1, A-3910 Zwettl

tel. and fax: + 43 (0)2822/52402-116

e-mail: info@saatzucht-edelhof.at

internet: www.saatzucht-edelhof.at

owner:
vocational school Edelhof, country of Lower Austria

marketing:
RWA (Raiffeisen Ware Austria), Saatzucht Edelhof GmbH and partners in Austria and abroad

entire farm vocational school Edelhof:
128 ha, thereof 67 ha organic farming (teaching, training and trial-aspects)
longtime trial accounts: lako

breeding station:
53 ha (incl. 18 ha oilseed rape, potatoes, poppy )

nursery garden:
35 ha at Edelhof
15 ha in agricultural schools Gießhübl, Hollabrunn und Obersiebenbrunn
and on several farms in Lower Austria in Hollabrunn, Obersiebenbrunn and partner companies in Lower Austria, Upper Austria and Styria (Pöchlarn, Gerhaus, St. Florian, Marchtrenk, Gleisdorf…).

That means about 40.000 plots for trials and monitoring per year plus trials in exchange with other cereal breeders (Austria and abroad).

winter-in-between-generations of all cereals in Chile (partner company Semillas Baer; Gorbea)

crop rotation:
oilseed rape- oats- winter wheat and spring wheat/winter rye – potatoes/poppy- winter barley and sping barley

abstract of breeding and trial locations (incomplete)

	Edelhof near Zwettl	Obersiebenbrunn near Vienna	Hollabrunn near Horn	Gießhübl near Amstetten
sealevel	595 m	151 m	250 m	290 m
annual temperature	7,8 °C	9,4 °C	9,0 °C	8,7 °C
annual precipitation	660 mm	520 mm	519 mm	950 mm
soil texture	loamy sand – sandy loam	loamy silt	loamy silt	loamy silt
soil type	acid brown earth	calcareous black earth	calcareous black earth	calcareous brown earth
land value	median arable land	high-quality arable land	high-quality arable land	high-quality arable land