Tour C4, 1 July: Tour leaders: Birgitte Pedersen, 15 years of experience for business development and branding in the food and agriculture value chain in Denmark and internationally . Peter W. Mogensen , journalist and editor at LandbrugsMedierne. Agricultural technician with cattle as a specialty Meat with focus on economy, animal welfare and climate footprint This tour takes you behind the scenes of the concept From farm to fork with regard to beef production. You will see and hear more about how companies set their climate goals, how the goals affect farmers, and what farmers must do to meet the goals while supplying meat to abattoirs and consumers - now and in the future. On the tour you will visit the abattoir Danish Crown Beef located in Holsted where nearly 4,500 cattle are slaughtered weekly and the beef is processed and value is added to create a wide range of products for both Danish and foreign consumers. Danish Crown is owned by farmers. You will meet Christian Sørensen, who 22 is one of the owners. The young farmer produces 3,600 veal calves every year and has a strong focus on animal welfare, economy and climate footprint. The farm is involved in a project in which calf feed intake and methane emissions are registered. The last visit goes to Hans Skovgaard in Them. He has beef as well as dairy cattle and pigs. From a farm shop he sell meet finished in the farms own pro - cessing room. Christian Sørensen Hans Skovgaard
Tour C5, 1 July: Tour leaders Erik Poulsen, journalist, political adviser at farmers association Fjordland, twice awarded IFAJ’s star prize for broadcast journalism as editor at LandTV Henning Otte Hansen, Senior Adviser, PhD, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen From liability to climate asset The Danish climate technology company Stiesdal is busy scaling up its Sky - Clean technology which, according to scientists, has the potential to cut emis - sions from Danish agriculture in half. SkyClean combines biofuel production with carbon capture and storage, using feedstocks from agricultural waste. The company will bring its latest SkyClean 2 MW test plant online in March 2022. The plant is located in the green business park GreenLab in Skive and will be ten times larger than the company’s first generation SkyClean test fa - cility S in k a y u C g l u e r a at n ed in August 2021. Th C e a p r y b r o ol n ys c is a -b p a t s u e r d e SkyClean technology was developed and tested by Sties a d n al d an b d io re e s n e e a r rc g h y ers from The Technical University of Denmark and is now being fast tracked by Stiesdal towards large scale commercialisation. Stiesdal is a new and fast-growing climate technology group. Apart from Sky - 23 Clean, Stiesdal has activities in floating offshore wind, energy storage, and Power-to-X hydrogen production. Read more at www.stiesdal.com. The new Stiesdal plant at GreenLab in Skive. Notice the coal pellets, the leftover fraction from the production of carbon-neutral biofuel. The pellets have value as fertiliser. The coal will stay in the soil for hundreds of years. Environment and delicacy Denmark is surrounded by water. The strait Limfjorden, considered the world’s best shellfish water, is being used to grow shellfish for water purification. Sur - plus nutrients from manure, industrial fertilisers and other sources reach the coastal waters and enable growth of algal blooms and oxygen deprivation. We will visit Danish Shellfish Centre, part of DTU Aqua, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, which focuses on how shellfish can help improve water quality by acting as nature’s own water filters. The more shellfish are grown, the cleaner the water becomes. We will get an introduction to aquacultural growth and harvesting methods of oysters, mussels and seaweed. Oysters Mussels