Sojdungs Gård, Fole Gotland
Sojdungs Gård is placed between Visby Ands Slite on the island
of Gotland. The farm is owned by the Andersson family; Leif, his wife
Anne-Marie, their son Tobias and their daughter Linda. Leifs parents
baught the farm in 1964 and Leif was part-owner in 1968. In 1980 the
whole farm was aquired by Leif and Anne-Marie. They now work full
time in the company with another full time worker. Tobias is studying
in Skara to become a Agro technician, starting in August. Linda is
beginning her second year at the health care program in upper secondary
school in Visby. Acreage being used today is 140 hectares of fields,
80 hectares of woods and 50 hectares of pastureland, with 20 hectares
being leasehold land. Appart from that the farm has a co-operation
with two other breeders on 255 hectare. The cultivation contains of
grazing-ground, grain, peas, corn and mustard. It is currently being
certified with "Svenskt Sigill" meaning the quality of it
is being very good. Some parts of the domains is being cultivated
ecologically. The mustard is being sold to Gudinge
Produkter which is a neighbour to Sojdungs farm.
The
animals
The animals consists of 350 Charolais cattles. Some of the animals
is mixed races. Around 60 suckle cows is the base of the cattle and
some semimanufactured cattles i bought in to become breeders. The
feed consists of selfproduced feed, exept for salt, minerals and carrots
from a neighbour. Consequently no imported protein feeds is being
used. Storage and feed handling is being made at the farm. All the
animals can walk outside all year around in semiopen buildings. The
production is quality secured through Swedish Meat and Sveriges Bönders
Miljöhusesyn. The Animals is being slaughtered in a facility
in Visby approximatly 17 kilometres from the farm. The meat is being
sold to
Charolais Gotland HB, which Sojdungs is part-owners in. The meat
is being marketed mainly in the Stockholm area under the brand Charolaiskvalitet
Gotland alongside Stockholms
Butikskött.
Other
The machines consists of 3 tractors, 1 load machine, one
15 feet combine harvester, field tools, sow machine, and grazin-ground
machines. Hireing is being done for pressing and packing of silage
in tube. The farm is self-supporting of electricity through part-ownership
in 2 wind mills.
Sojdungs Gård became cattle producer of the year in Gotland
in 2001. The farm has also being awarded with tripple A diploma 5
years in a row for highest creditworthy.
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