Landgard has presented the 2023 Landgard Awards in the categories ' Member Farm of the Year , ' ' Young Talent Award , ' ' Innovation Award , ' and ' Sustainability Award ' . This year ’s winners are Volker and Dominik Janssen ( Member Company of the Year ) , Michelle Pfeifer ( Young Talent Award ) , Leo Berghs - Trienekens ( Innovation Award ) , and Georg Hanka ( Sustainability Award ) . " Committed and inventive farm are the ground of our manufacturer co-op and the immature sector as a whole . They lay out the past , the present , and , above all , the future of gardening , and we , as a cooperative , can only ever be as substantial as our member farm are . Therefore , I am all the more pleased that we are honour four of our farms with the Landgard Award and , not least , thanking them for their operation and innovative strength , " says Landgard CEO Oliver Mans .
The presentation of the Landgard Awards marked the highlight of the evening result at an overarching commission meeting in Grünberg , Hesse . The laudators * at the awards ceremony were Dr. Svea Pacyna - Schürheck ( Managing Director Landgard Obst & Gemüse GmbH & Co. KG ) , Stefan Rütten ( Managing Director Landgard West Obst & Gemüse GmbH ) , Johannes Kronenberg ( Managing Director Landgard Blumen & Pflanzen GmbH ) and Stefan Grett - Winkel ( Managing Director Landgard Fachhandel GmbH & Co. KG ) . The presentation of the Landgard Awards has already taken place in part in the run - up to the committee meeting in the enterprises of the winners*innen . Bert Schmitz , Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Landgard eG , as well as other citizens committee penis from the Flowers & Plants and Fruit & vegetable divisions , also attend the presentation of the Landgard Awards and congratulated the winner .
Member party of the class : Edelrot GmbH - strawberries from the Lower Rhine regionIn the category " Member Company of the Year , " a caller is honored for its long - stand commitment to the Landgard producer cooperative and the industry , as well as for a uniform future- and customer - oriented focus .
All this hold to Edelrot GmbH in Viersen . The accolade was presented by Stefan Rütten , Managing Director of Landgard West Obst & Gemüse GmbH. The companionship is located in the Lower Rhine realm , close to the Düsseldorf domain and the Dutch border , and is wield in the third generation by Volker Janssen and his boy Dominik . On 13 hectare of refinement arena , of which five hectares are under deoxyephedrine and heated , four hectares unwarmed enhancer greenhouse , and four hectares foil tunnel , strawberries are harvested continuously between April and December and marketed via Landgard . In increase , there are six hectares for the company ’s own young flora production . The product concentre on two variety , Elsanta and Malling Centenary . In plus , new varieties are also test time and again . In yield , the Edelrot farm relies entirely on protected cultivation with covers over the fruit . This check optimal protection against weather influences such as lead , rain , and stiff sun . In addition , the loose - fall plants grow in a toilet system at a height of 1.5 cadence in 100 percent cocoanut husk substrate and without touching the ground .
Due to the global energy berth and succeeding mood protection requirements , the plant rely on thermic energy from renewable resources . " For the independent energy production , we utilize a biomass firing system of rules discharge by Grant Wood microprocessor chip . In improver to the biomass firing plant , we render heat with the assistant of a combined heat and power industrial plant ground on biomethane gas . In this way , we check emission - liberal energy genesis , " aver Dominik Janssen . The heat generated is stored in a buffer tank with a capacity of one million litre of heating piddle and called up as needed . Additional heating energy is generated with a ember - fired heating system .
Due to the substantial increment in production costs as a result of damage gain in areas such as minimum reward , substrates , fertilizers , energy , and fuel , investment are currently also being examine more intimately at Edelrot GmbH in term of their economic viability . For this reason , the focus is presently on more favorable celluloid systems , such as cultivation in tunnels without a rack and production in the earth . " Remontant varieties are also on the ascent overall . Their reward are low-spirited cost and less sweat and cloth input for one - time planting , " explains Volker Janssen .
This year ’s honour winner are Dominik Janssen of Edelrot GmbH , Leo Berghs - Trienekens , and Franz Hanka .
Innovation Award : Leo Berghs - TrienekensThe Landgard Award in the class " Innovation Award " recognizes a company that fend out for innovative product , armed service , business models , or technologies for the gullible industry .
The honour jury opt Leo Berghs - Trienekens , owner of Leo Berghs - Trienekens Gemüsebau in Straelen . He produce pelf on his farm using what is known as hydroponic cultivation . The terminus aquiculture is derive from the Greek dustup " hydro " for urine and " ponos " for work . In gardening , hydroponics stomach for a method of raising and cultivating ornamental and useful plants without soil or substrate in a water system using good insects and reduced , needs - based fertilization . In this process , the root of the plant are debar in a alimentary solution consisting of urine and nutrients dissolve in it .
For hydroponic dinero polish , Leo Berghs - Trienekens uses a greenhouse that previously develop mostly tomatoes . However , due to increase free energy prices , he decided to stop fire up the nursery last year . The last batch of sunshine - ripened Lycopersicon esculentum was harvested , and the greenhouse was afterwards emptied . Here , Leo Berghs - Trienekens now grows leafy vegetable and lettuce hydroponically . Thus , lettuce now grows at Berghs - Trienekens not only out of doors but also in the greenhouse on float plate .
The lettuce plants floating on the plastic plates always take up on the dot the nutrients they need at the instant via the roots hanging in the H2O . harmonize to Leo Berghs - Trienekens , a particularly important reward of hydroponic finish is sustainability . " Because of the closed organization and minimal drying up , we can save water , and there is no leaching of plant food . As a result , we also have no nitrate pollution . In addition , providing nutrients forthwith to the plants alternatively of the soil foraging for nutrients that is common in the field ensure optimise growth and very downcast pest infestation . " Another advantage of hydroponic cultivation is the very effective use of terra firma . For example , the amount of lettuce the farm cultivates on the aquacultural surface area would require many times the space in the open field of battle .
The Landgard growers ' cooperative congratulates all of this year ’s Landgard Award winner .
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