PROGRAM

Alnarp

The earliest record of the Alnarp estate dates from 1325. In 1674, the estate became a state demesne and the official residence of the governor-general of Scania (Skåne). Alnarp "Castle" was built in 1862 to house a new school of agronomy.

Today, Alnarp is a University Campus, part of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), founded in 1977 by merging the Swedish Colleges of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine. Alnarp staff and faculty members number 400, and there are about 600 students.

Main Deparments

Agricultural Biosystems and Technology, Landscape Management, Landscape Planning and Horticultural Technology, Crop Science.

The Alnarp Estate
compromises 500 ha of arable and grazing land. Cereal crops and sugar beets are culti­vated commercially and there are around 170 cows in commercial milk production. Both crops and livestock are used for research and in field trials.

Address: P.O. Box 52, SE-230 53 ALNARP Phone:+4640 415 000; Fax:+4640 415 010

Swedish Agriculture

Sweden is one of the largest countries in Europe. Roughly half of the land area is covered by forest and more than a third consists of mountains, marshlands and lakes. Land under cultivation comprises less than three million hectares, which is just over seven per cent of the total land area.

Bearing in mind its northerly geographical location, the climate in Sweden is favour­able, although the scope for agricultural activities of various kinds differs a great deal between the north and south of the country. In Scania (Skåne), in southern Sweden, the growth period is almost 100 days longer than in the north.

Slightly more than 80,000 people, or some two per cent of the total, are economically active in farming and forestry. In addition, approximately 60,000 people are employed in the food industry. Most of the farms are family businesses. Part-time farming, with income supplemented by other employ­ment, has become increasingly common.

Structural developments in agriculture over the last few decades have led to fewer but larger farms with ever-bigger investments. Most of the large farms are located on the southern plains like in Scania.

With the exception of a few products,
Sweden is self-sufficient as regards agricultural products. Unlike farmers in many other European countries, the farmers of Sweden are involved, through their co-operative societies and asso­ciations, in the further processing and marketing of agricultural products.

Jordbrukare-Ungdomens Förbund
Box 2022, SE-641 02 KATRINEHOLM

Tel. +46 (0)150 50390, Fax (0)150 53599

www.juf.se         E-mail: juf@juf.se

     Wednesday Sept. 21^st

                          Arrival of the ploughmen
20.00                  Welcome dinner

                          Drawing of the practice plots

Thursday Sept. 22^nd

08.00-17.00

15.00-17.00

09.00-18.00

20.00

General Meeting; EPF

Visitors Tour

Dinner

Briefing

Friday Sept. 23^rd

08.00-13.00

09.00-13.00

15.30-17.30

18.00

20.00

Practice ploughing. Lunch

Visitors Tour incl. lunch

Ploughmen Sightseeing Tour

Ploughmen’s Mess at the Cathedral of Lund

Dinner in Lund

Drawing of plots. Grassland

Saturday Sept. 24^th

09.45

11.00-15.00

20.00  

Parade to plots

European Championship                     Grassland Ploughing

Dinner                                                Drawing of plots. Stubble              

Sunday Sept. 25^th

09.45

11.00-15.00

20.00

European Championship
Stubble Ploughing

Ploughmen Festival                      Presentation of awards

Monday Sept. 26^th

Overnight:

Arlöv Park Hotell, Kronetorpsv. 10,                       SE-232 37 ARLÖV, phone: +46 40 433 620