Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Pflanz

• Animal Science in Organic Agriculture

• Development and organisation in organic agriculture
• Agriculture Construction
• Indoor farming technology
• Animal production in organic agriculture
• Animal nutrition
• Animal husbandry and breeding
• Processes and economics of animal production in organic agriculture

2021

• Optimisation of the climate in the cattle barn during the winter months with the Lock concept control system

• Testing of the conversion planner "Kon-2-Öko" for practical suitability on the basis of a farm development plan for an additional agricultural enterprise

• Status quo and potential analysis of bedding materials for composting stables

• Conversion planning and introduction to organic laying hen management

• Empirical survey on the awareness and use of animal fibre products as well as presentation of wool production with listing of important wool species - recommendations for action to increase consumer appreciation

• Castration of male piglets in organic pig farming - comparison of methods

• Organic goat milk production in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg: analysis and development perspectives of the goat milk market as well as evaluation of on-farm milk processing compared to dairy delivery

• Measures to influence the contents of grain legumes

• Structural adaptation of a farrowing farm to the innovations of the Ordinance on Animal Welfare and Animal Husbandry

• Development strategies for a farm extension with mobile chicken husbandry

• Methodical and technical comparison of wool fineness measuring instruments on the basis of field data

• Farm development concept for dairy goat On the basis of a real farm

• Use of different areas of structured pens by rearing piglets

• Foot pad health of laying hens in mobile housing systems

• Process description of a partial conversion to suckling calf rearing

• Determination of grain moisture of Agriculture dried goods with the help of the Chung-Post equation, experimental determination of performance constants via environmental parameters

2019

• Construction and management of a composting barn

• Consideration of housing conditions and profitability when participating in an animal welfare programme for fattening pigs

• Sustainable value chains of bull calves from the organic dairy sector

• Implementation of a measuring method for the assessment of air quality in animal houses with the Gasmet DX 4015

• Horn-bearing cows: importance, implementation, effects

• Establishment of mother-bound and nurse-bound calf rearing on the Haslberger family's organic farm and possible alternatives

• Honey as winter feed? Influence of different honey types and honey proportions in winter feed on the development of honey bee colonies

• Cause, treatment and preventive measures of calf diarrhoea on an Agriculture farm

• Evaluation of construction costs and comparison of construction costs of innovative stables for keeping sows and piglets in Baden-Württemberg

• Valorisation of Southern German Merino Wool - Livestock Breeding to Wool Collection -

• Influencing factors and potentials for the valorisation of southern German merino wool