Field advertising with Vector Seed: What farmer Christoph says about it
With our technology and our business model, we turn nature into a big stage. Farmer Christoph talks about his experiences. What is important to him is that nothing is lost. Flowering islands of advertising cultivation are even suitable as a scientifically accompanied future model in the middle of conventional cultivation. Because: A blooming wildflower logo is often only a few percent of the agricultural area, but contributes decisively to the preservation of biodiversity and can be a real and disproportionately contributing profit earner for farmers!
A frequently asked and completely justified question is: Are you taking something away from nature? Or in other words: Is commercial farming in competition with organic and fair cultivation?
The opposite is the case! In the interview, farmer Christoph talks about the fact that the area for the planned sugar beet cultivation did not have to be taken "out of production" at all, but that the project has enabled a good coexistence in the middle of normal cultivation. Win Win for farmers and biodiversity.
And that's what it's all about: promoting agricultural engagement and proving that the integration of flowering islands (field advertising, nature sponsorships) contributes to the well-being of farmers and biodiversity without disturbing or even destroying anything.
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Useful addition for farmers and nature
Advertising cultivation with high-precision vector-seed methods from GEOXIP open up completely new possibilities globally.
Possible, for example:
- a biodiverse catch crop with field and wildflower components
- an undercrop with field and wildflower components that only get going after mowing down
- A meaningful enhancement in the middle of conventional agriculture to promote biodiversity
Advertising cultivation in the middle of normal cultivation is productive and yields. Nothing is lost. Nothing is displaced.
Example yield:
Whether due to EU requirements a flowering strip is laid out lovelessly at the edge of the field, or whether with a high-quality flowering mixture in the middle of the cultivation in the form of logos takes place, plays for the farmer first "area-related" no role. Advertising cultivation is not displacing, but integrative. Nothing is lost. Farmers have, in addition to their usual yield, the sure yield of advertising cultivation. And literally everything can be utilized here as well. Be it as extremely high-quality BIO material or for biological humus build-up. Commercial cultivation is a question of ethics and our precision technology -> GEOXIP Vector-Seed (R).
Example biodiversity:
Because a nature sponsor puts money into the hand, rare and endangered native species can also be sown and promoted, and things can be done that would otherwise simply never be economically possible. Normally, a farmer would tend to plant a flowering strip with a cheap 0815 flowering mixture. Thanks to a nature sponsorship, it hardly matters whether seeds for this cost, say, 20 or 2,000 euros. For the diversity of species and the return of domestic rarities this makes a crucial difference. Promotional cultivation here makes biotope-spanning species protection and the return of many endangered rare native plants, insects and wild bees possible. A good thing, then!
Risks like weediness? Christoph says: Do it!
Christoph struggles with heavy weeds after Ahr flood. Melde is rampant in many places and still affects normal cultivation. But also the seeding with all kinds of field and wild flowers of our advertising cultivation could naturally sprout in the following year. For this reason, it is important for us to also talk to farmers about fears or "no goes". Christoph encourages farmers and tells other farmers here crystal clear: "Do it".
Mindfulness for farmers and the origin of our food
"You also get the population here a little closer to the field again, to what we actually do here"
It's a totally exciting thing. It is a challenge. You also get the population a little closer to the field again, to what we actually do here.