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Moor Field Day 2025
Focus on grassland use, moorland conservation and regional value creation
On 27 May 2025, the MoorAgentur MV held its first Moor Field Day in Mönkebude. Around 40 participants from agriculture, water management, public administration and business exchanged ideas on long-term experiences with wet grassland management and the utilisation of paludic biomass.
Source specification: MoorAgentur MV
From the polder to the podium: Insights from the field
For seven years, as part of the EU LIFE project LIMICODRA, grassland has been cultivated on rewetted moorland in the Rosenhagen and Mönkebude polders – with the aim of reconciling meadow bird protection, peatland conservation and agricultural use.
During the Moor Field Day, participants gained practical insights into land management under elevated water levels and the technical and ecological challenges on site. The excursion was complemented by an intensive exchange of expertise at Café Bugewitz.
Professional input from practice, research and industry
The presentations made it clear that wet management on moorland sites not only contributes to climate protection, but also offers potential for regional value chains.
Impulses came from, among others:
- Kai Paulig (Stiftung Umwelt- und Naturschutz MV/LIFE Limicodra): Meadow bird conservation and water level management in peatlands
- Martin Schiewer (Ducherower Agrar GmbH): Practical experience with wet grassland farming
- Ludwig Bork (Agrotherm GmbH): Use of wetland biomass as a fuel source
- Clemens Kleinspehn (Universität Greifswald/PaludiAllianz): Building value chains with companies like OTTO, LEIPA and Toom
Between vision and reality: utilising biomass – but how?
A key theme of the event was the question of how paludi biomass can be used economically. While interest is growing – for example, due to new regulations in the biogas sector and initiatives by large companies – suitable buyers and logistical infrastructure are still lacking in many areas.
Dr. Almut Mrotzek, Head of MoorAgentur MV, summed it up succinctly:
“If we succeed in establishing value chains for paludi biomass, it will be good in three ways – for the climate, for the landscape, and for the regional economy.”
Outlook: Expanding cooperation, strengthening practice
The discussion showed that the prerequisites are in place – large peatland areas, many years of practical experience, technical expertise and growing demand. What’s needed now is the establishment of sustainable partnerships between agriculture, industry and research, as well as investment in drying, processing and logistics.
The PaludiAllianz, the MoorAgentur MV and the LIMICODRA project are working together to shape this future.
