Transborder Farming - an intelligent approach to more successful farming

Besides the traditional "Land Consolidation Measures" a Virtual Transborder farming is a smart alternative: 1. There are different alternatives to initiate a project. 2. Change to machine cooperatives allow the use of powerful mechanization as well as a significant decrease of costs. 3. Field enlargements may go up to 7 (15) to 1, depending from the existing field sizes and the given field structures. 4. Smooth extensions of transborder fields may occur during the installation of transborder farming systems. 5. Economic benefits are around 300 to 400 €/ha and year. 6. Ecologic benefits result in lower soil compaction, less over lapping and in new possibilities in nature conservation (set aside, hedges, trees, … ). 7. Social benefits are seen in more farmer to farmer (family to family) activities, in degreasing thinking about competition and in an improved style of life. 8. The realized projects in Germany are running now for more than 10 years and all of them created new benefits in accordance with the given situations.