How good decisions financially benefit German dairy farm

08-11-2022 | |
Herbert Hardege is one of the founding farmers and is the general manager of the dairy and energy businesses. Photo: Chris McCullough
Herbert Hardege is one of the founding farmers and is the general manager of the dairy and energy businesses. Photo: Chris McCullough
With current high milk and electricity prices, a German dairy farm and its sister energy company are now reaping in the benefits of sound business decisions made only a few years ago. Profile Farm: Plesse Milch, which is based near Gottingen in Lower Saxony, milks 700 cows in an indoor system that also produces manure used to generate 4.4 million kilowatt hours per year. Staff: Herbert Hardege (61) is one of the founding farmers. Cows: Herd includes 711 cows and a further 528 heifers of vario


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