I offer you
Independent German agricultural engineer and consultant to manage, advise, audit, restructure, consult
successfully your project R&D, farming business operation, agribusiness consulting and farm land investment.
For organic
farming & sustainable
agriculture I provide advisory agro management, extension and agricultural consultant services based on profound expertise, practical experience, and professional excellence
to western standard.
Pro-active farm trouble-shooter
successfully restructure corporate farm investments
â›” Any doubt
about the approach, risk,
plan, development of your farm business future, farm land management, startup and investment need?
Crisis response needed?
â›” Does this result in loss, credit load
accumulating? Is the financial requirement high, the liquidity
too low?
â›” Is your farm operation staff
frustrated, low skilled?
Is theft a problem?
â›” Are farm machines
equipment suitable, operational and sufficiently powerful?
â›” Social friction
with the village, banks, suppliers, customers exist?
Environmental
issues: water quality, soil erosion, climate change, biodiversity?
☀ I put your farming project back on track as a trouble-shooter serving as an independent farming business consultant and (interim) management professional!
☀ I am on your side
to de-risk
whatever it takes proactive reorient and turn around!
☀ From developing agro strategy to consistent farm business management implementation = put plan into action!
Which way to develop, to go for
several years of broad corporate farming experience
» Excellent resilient practice of commercial farm
operation management, R&D projects and hands-on agro advisory services.
» Set up and implement project or farm strategy
plan
and
operation
management, full-cost and production controlling, proper record keeping, profit-loss analyses, audit.
» Field crop operation
scouting and advice, appropriate sampling analyes of soil nutrient content, pH, humus;
unbiased rational usage of fertilizer and pesticides;
soil tillage; high quality cultivar genetics; harvest
logistics, digitizing soil and yield maps, precision farming by using GPS-GIS-field-work-recording software.
» Usage of coherent, robust, and efficient farm equipment
tillage - harvest machinery
for effective field work; being
preventative well maintained to keep in work conditions functional at all times;
performance management, checklist use and recording; using remote digital data access.
» Dairy
milk and beef meat cattle, livestock husbandry, breeding,
bull mating, pedigree herd records of heifers, calves and calving report sheets, cow fertility and
health veterinary treatment supervision,
using digital data herd management software, feed concept controlling, appropriate animal welfare comfort housing and equipment, modern milking parlour management and hygenic quality assurance.
» Staff
management HR, job description, audit, organization, training, on-the-job-coaching, team spirit.
Figure of farm model to balance
dairy
milk performance with feed ration and forage acreage
Convert transit to organic farming
based on special expertise and own research
» For suitable
site conditions and climate to farm transit producing organic products I fully guide and advise you on the transition planning crop rotation, soil fertility and humus-management, soil tillage, crop production protocol,
seed sourcing.
Crucial: which legumes
where why how often. There are special equipment and concepts for weed and pest control to adapt when converting.
» Market, agrobusiness, buyer discovery to open special sales
channels to realize premium prices following a value added
premium quality and supply chain and value chain approach: Seed to storage, paddock to plate, farm to fork in bio ecological farming.
» Specific requirements of paperwork, quality management, record keeping, use of checklist, inspection preparation, fulfill
organic
state support, particular of the organic farming
transition period, control-audit-certification
and export
regulations agribusiness.
» Fully I navigate
and mentor
you through the total process of converting to organic
agriculture farm management.
» You have heavy soil slow warming up, wet in spring, extreme dry summer, one-side intensive livestock production = conversion to biological farming will be hardly possible.
Model to analyze, plan and convert crop rotation and crop acreage of an organic livestock farm
Services personally by me: to lead, consult, plan, audit and manage
- also to restructure, reorganise, expand, and adapt your project
research and development (R&D), team, large scale farm
business operation management, green field dairy
farm investments, Ag equipment and tillage machinery invest concepts, interim
management.
- Agronomic analyses, beef, cairy and crop farm audit
and site assessment
of your land soil plant field infrastructure development, farm operation, and soil
survey; evaluate and conclude options of profitable
sustainable
agriculture and strategic farm land management.
- Agricultural analysis, scrutiny and audit of the strength, weakness
and risk
of your sustainable R&D and farming project and land acquisition.
- Weak-point-analysis, due diligence and feasibility study, business plan, audit of your R&D and commercial agricultural project and integrated corporate agribusiness.
- But most of all to implement measures needed, identified and agreed step for step but for sure to become real.
- I provide whatever it takes to empower
and enable you making the right farm investment
decisions and to protect your long term agricultural asset value.
Expect from me clear analyses, audits and recommendations: Plan - Do - Act - Check
- Well-founded and independent of development and business plans, comprehensive tracking of implementation by data analyses and checklist audits; agro operational
reviews,
issue easy to read
reports with
key follow-up recommendations written precisely to the point
for your decision making.
- I serve as your impartial
objective mirror from the outside, not blind
to the single farm operation, as a sparring partner. Key is my well trained rational and logical approach to planning and organising management.
- Leadership: Fair leading but demanding and encouraging well organized highly motivated teams
for agricultural project management. Also conducting client training programmes and on the job coaching, define SOP and job descriptions.
- Always I am highly committed and persistent to fulfill your task self-motivated hands-on within budget and on time.
- I provide accurate work and excellent services based on full support, integrity, mutual respect and fair cooperation.
I work for your agricultural R&D project, audit and farming business operation
- Farm landowner, landlord, ag investor, corporate commercial farm enterprises, public and private farm business,
charities, NGO,
producer groups,
institutional and individual
land ownership
investments.
- Agricultural international development
cooperation
consultant (EU-AID, GIZ)
- Institutions of agricultural higher and vocational education
training VET/TVET and further eduction in farming (FE) and agricultural R&D research centers.
- AgriFood and agribusiness, farming input supplier along the value food chain expertise up to certifier audits particular organic produce, importer, food processing and feed
processor, retailer.
- Ag advisory and supervisory board, stakeholder, waterwork, authority, public body, government.
- Work is done employed or on a fee-for-service
basis from one day up to long term contracts or freelance. In certain cases pro-bono
on request.
Testimonial
Consulting Landowner Ag Farm Investor Nigeria
I have listened too much to people who have no idea about the task to set up a large scale farming operation in Nigeria, this also applies to agricultural machinery. I learned a lot from you ... The time was very insightful for me and I learned more in two days than in the two years before.
Consultant Trainer & Dairy Farmer Austria
I was also allowed to learn a lot from you - seriously, no kidding! I have not seen such structured way of working at the dairy farm like this with this consequence - it was very remarkable!
Feed Distribution - Cattle Consultant, Austria
I would also like to thank you for the always critical and demanding questions, I greatly appreciated your straightforward and correct way of working together when setting up the feed ration, the specification of milk replacer and special mineral feed components.
Farm Operation Management Staff - Consulting in Nigeria
It was really a pleasure to work with you, it has opened my eyes to what farming really is about, particular tropical farming in Africa.
17.000
up to ha land
management and consulting
180
up to staff
management and training
Veterinarian Cattle Trainer, Consultant, Austria
I remember how I inspected the livestock shortly before you joined the company as managing director in West-Romania and was sure that the situation of the livestock husbandry was just before "land under" !! ... one can note that a lot has been achieved in cattle livestock during these years (and I can judge that).
On the occasion, I would like to pay tribute to your social skills in the way you interact with staff - that I honestly haven't just admired once - always been at the same respectful level and mutual appreciation - my respect for it !!
On the occasion, I would like to pay tribute to your social skills in the way you interact with staff - that I honestly haven't just admired once - always been at the same respectful level and mutual appreciation - my respect for it !!
Operation Team Staff as Managing Director in Romania
Staff 1:
A big thank you for all the support you give it to me as managing director of Banat Agri Group, and I appreciate that you saw in me a person who could improve and learn more.
Staff 2:I have to thank you for your dedication and hard work in your time here as managing director. You inspired us to become better version of ourselves even if not all of us realized it.
Staff 3:
I also want to thank you for your leadership and for the opportunity that I had worked with you over the past 6 years to become a more complete and better equipped professional person.
Staff 4:
Thank you very much for the advices (which like many other situations in the past when you sustained, supported and guided me), I highly appreciate/-ed, for the care and patience ...
Grain Trader Germany, email to third parties
I think that Mr. Haas is an extremely experienced and well-versed man for both "organic farming" and "Romania". As you can hardly find one. I met Mr. Haas when he converted the farm "Multiagra" near Botosan in Romania to "organic".
Later ... Mr. Haas worked for a few years in the management of the (conventional) farms .. in Banat .. In this context, Mr. Haas also gained experience with Romanian bureaucracy, mentality, laws etc. In my opinion, he did a great job there in an extremely difficult environment.
Management Staff in Romania
Staff 5: You have earned my fully respect and appreciation. You are the most hard-working administrator that I have ever worked with and knew in Romania. ... You are trustworthy and someone who knows how to motivate and appreciate the efforts of the others. I have learned so much from you and thank you for that!
Staff 6:
I am very lucky to have worked with you, as a managing director of Banat Agri Group who is not only interested in the company’s bottom line, but also in his employees' professional growth. ... working with you had been fully professional, forward thinking, motivating. You have the capability to highlight each team’s member qualities in order to reach the common goals..
Farmer - Professor - Head of Vocational Trainng
First of all thank you for your visit to Romania, for your interesting points of view in transition to organic farming and finally for your professional manner of treating the case. My father was really impressed by your precise knowledge of different organic farming aspects and issues. We all wish that we have a long term collaboration in consulting and guiding us for the conversion period to organic farming.
O. Portariuc, Farmer, Botosani, Romania
It was great to have you in Korea, not only to arrange the symposium and your very interesting lectures providing a deep insight into organic farming topics but also to get to know you personally.
Prof. Dr. Sang Mok Sohn, Dankook University, Rep. of Korea
I would like to thank you once again for your great commitment to our "organic farming training". The future shop worker participants were very impressed and gave us very good feedback.
H. Fuerst, Discemus GmbH Vocational Training, Troisdorf, Germany
H. Fuerst, Discemus GmbH Vocational Training, Troisdorf, Germany
L. Acimovic, Head Organic Production Unit, Serbia
Dr. Haas provided substantial support to the organic farming unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of the Republic of Serbia particular on
- the Serbian legal framework on organic farming,
- the set up and analyzes of the national official registries and statistics of operators (data base),
- the office and witness audits of control bodies organic farming,
- the structure and procedures of the unit by considering internal and external interfaces of the section within the Ministry
- also advising the Ministry on general organic farming policy and strategy issues, e.g. national action plan an donor applications.
Dr. Haas performed excellently based on highly qualified broad range of vocational skills and profound professional background. His comments were always well thought out and clearly articulated in concise written proposals showing creative and flexible options to act.
Who I am - what I like:
Guido Haas, agronomist, agricultural engineer and scientist
Love being outdoor with rubber boots in mud and manure
- digging into the ground, smell, assess the crop soil tillage
to sowing, growth to yield development, the effect of fertilization and spraying;
- to see dairy and beef cattle
breed Simmental-Fleckvieh with some Red Holstein Friesian cross and beef breed Limousin - in the free stall barn or on pasture, who are chewing calm and relaxed;
- to observe farm machinery
properly maintained without any breakdowns, able to finish field work effectively.
- As a tackling "rubber boot-scientist"
in agronomy at the University of Bonn - Institute of Organic Agriculture, Germany, I was outdoor a lot with over 80 own field plot research
and development trials
on conventional, sustainable-integrated and organic production often in close cooperation with farmers for on farm demo fields. Set up the organic agro innovative consulting
and training M&D
- R&D pilot farm project
in NRW, State of Germany.
Buried in PC paperwork for precise analyses, reports and statements
- Desk PC work is complementary to the field and barn: I like to dig into it, become clear about the real facts and solutions: operational review, plan, data, reports on performance, yield and quality.
- strategic development, outcome, cost and production controlling,
economic analysis, revenue margin, liquidity,
market analyzes.
- Many years as an applied agricultural scientist at the University of Bonn, Germany, have trained me in
self-critical analysis and precise writing of about 120 publications.
- About 130 agro presentations in front of experts in research, farming, advice consultants, farmers, NGO's, state farming extension agents, retail and agribusiness manager, consumers, students. Undertaking many guided tours for diverse groups visiting the organic experimental research and demonstration farm and innovation training center Wiesengut of the University of Bonn, Germany.
People and farming international consulting and project management
- For 6 years farm operation Managing director
17,000 ha in Romania.
- Before, 4 years of agricultural farm consulting
and project
management in development cooperation
rural livelihood, food and farming in Serbia,
Middle East: Saudi Arabia; South Caucasus: Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan
- I worked as an ag international consultant for more than 5 years in south-eastern Europe, EU, Georgia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Banat, Balkans, Baltic States, Poland, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Sub-saharan Nigeria West Africa, Ethiopia, East Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, South Sudan, Namibia, South Africa.
- At the University of Bonn
I started as an agronomist PhD-student, becoming an assistant and associated professor of agricultural sciences in research and development, demonstration
and lecturing. Leading, coordinating and managing several field and study research project teams.
- My research and innovative R&D at the University was on wheat cultivars, legume species, nitrate and N in soil and plant turn over, organic dairy farm systems; life cycle assessment of farms conducting different farming intensities; adjusted farming mea-sures in vulnerable water protection areas: EU Water Framework Directive WFD, EU Nitrates Directive; audit the impact of farms, farming intensity and food processing on climate change and CO2-emissions
Let us clarify objectives, approach and options to fulfil your R&D project, farm management, and consulting need.
I look forward to working with and for you!
Best wishes, Guido Haas
g.haas@agrarhaas.de
