Insect-Friendly Mowing of Peatland Grasslands Using a Flail Mower
Research project
07/2026 - 03/2027
Project volume:6.045 EURO
Competence field:Sustainable ecosystem management, Sustainable, site-adapted production systems, Process engineering and technologies in the agricultural and food industry
Cooperation:Practical partnership, Composite partnership
Funding partner:Third-Party Funding
The HNEE project evaluates arthropod-friendly management practices for wet peatland sites using a specially adapted flail mower. On the fields of the practice partner Naturrind Uckermark, the mowing techniques of sickle-bar, disc, and flail mowers are comparatively investigated with regard to their effects on the arthropod fauna of peatland grassland. The project is being carried out in cooperation with the agricultural machinery manufacturer Mera Rabeler GmbH & Co. KG, which is also providing financial support for the project.
Contact
Projektleitung
Friedrich BirrWissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Professur für Nachhaltige Grünlandnutzungssysteme und Grünlandökologie
Allgemeiner Kontakt
Alexander Häberlen
Project staff emptying the biocenometers
Project work with a flail mower
We don’t just want to know which mowing technique works—we want to know which technique, under the specific conditions of wet peatland sites, is also least harmful to insect life.
Alexander Häberlen
Project coordinator and project staff
Funding partner
Third-Party Funding
€6,045.20 from Mera Rabeler GmbH & Co. KG
Partnerships
Practice partners
Marc de la Barré’s Naturrind Uckermark farm (provision of trial plots)
Consortium partners
Mera Rabeler GmbH & Co. KG (Client)
