Agricultural company Ruppendorf AG Home page Current Companies Our areas Menu Opening times, contact & directions Information in accordance with the Hazardous Incident Ordinance on the Ruppendorf biogas plant In the file you will find the information required by law according to the accident ordinance on the biogas plant operated by Agrargesellschaft Ruppendorf AG at the Ruppendorf dairy cattle plant. © 2020 Agrargesellschaft Ruppendorf AG Imprint Disclaimer Privacy Policy

Agricultural company Ruppendorf AG Home page Current Companies Our areas Menu Opening times, contact & directions Dairy cattle facility & young cattle rearing In the 2013/2014 milk year, around 1,100 Holstein-Friesian dairy cows were kept on slatted floors in our facility in Ruppendorf. A lactation performance of 11,500 kg milk per cow per year could be achieved. The 21 automatic milking systems (Lely Astronaut A4 robots), which were put into operation from 2012 and replace the old 28 milking carousel, are characteristic of our operation. Today our high-performance cows are milked 3 times a day by the robot in free cow traffic, where they receive an additional concentrate feed depending on their performance. The fresh milk is picked up every day by the Alois Müller dairy and processed further. With the help of the basic feed (maize silage, Italian ryegrass) obtained in our own plant production and the concentrate produced in the affiliated company, our cows are optimally cared for and are able to produce milk of the highest quality. In addition, we can ensure in-house reproduction through our adapted health and fertility management. This means that we can keep our livestock without external purchases through our own young cattle rearing. Depending on their gender, our calves are housed in one of the 150 individual igloos up to at least their 14th day of life, with the male animals being sold by the 28th day of life at the latest and the female animals being moved to the young cattle facility from the 56th day of life. Later they come back to the dairy cattle facility as pregnant heifers. When they are around eight weeks old, the female calves are brought to the young cattle facility in Seifersdorf. Here they grow up in large groups of around 40 animals in a deep litter pen and are inseminated for the first time with a live weight of around 400 kg. From the 6th month of pregnancy they are brought back to the facility in Ruppendorf, where they slowly get to know the milking robot as a phantom and get into milk production themselves. Biogas plant We have been operating our biogas plant in Ruppendorf not far from the dairy barn since 2013. The installed electrical output of our combined heat and power unit is 330 kW. A total of 2,860,000 kWh of electrical work is fed into the ENSO network each year and the waste heat is used for heating and hot water in the dairy cattle facility. Our biogas plant is mainly fed with cattle manure and manure, but also with non-processed feed from the company. Accordingly, no renewable raw materials are used, only organic waste from animal production. © 2020 Agrargesellschaft Ruppendorf AG Imprint Disclaimer Privacy Policy