Pilot project established good and satisfactory collaboration with 8 demonstration farms in Vojvodina. For the purpose of the project we have considered the following farm types:

• Family farms
• Agricultural enterprises
• Strong family farms
• Agriculture "combinates" (former state farms)

After estimating the situation on each of them, we have s chosen:

• Family farms
• Strong family farms

This is a small family dairy farm on which changes have started with modernization of equipment and machinery, but still organized in old fashioned way. Grows wheat, sunflower, maize for silage, and alfalfa.Production is based on the following resources:

The main problem of this farm is bad way of manure management. Storing is impropriate - improvised, on land surface, no floor, no fence or wall; manure is not prevented to pollute soil and not stored properly to preserve its value. Distribution is bad because of worn-out manure spreader with narrow spreading capacity

This is a farm which is example of developing process occurring ins strongest households in the region which are dealing with dairy production. It has been recreantly constructed and filled with animals using large own investments and state grants, but not completed yet. Grows maize for silage, barley, triticale, and alfalfa. 400,000 litres of milk sold per year. A stable for 100 dairy cows has just been constructed, only the milking parlour is not finished yet. It is based on the following resources:

This expanding farm is not completed yet. The main missing thing considering reduction of pollution is manure storing place and scraper in the stable. At the moment farm is in mud and dirt, with animals in very bad condition. Farmers needs lot of knowledge and technical assistance to provide their farm function in really efficient way.

This is a farm which compromise pigs and eggs production, with providing some concentrated feeds on their own crop fields. It is successful, but still expanding and have to be organized better. It is based on the following resources:

This is a modern farm in lot of aspects, but with same problems connected to rational nutrient cycling because of limited capacity of slurry tanks. Also distributing equipment is primitive. Farm have insufficient land to distribute slurry, so often spread it without control in surroundings.

Farm is growing maize, barley, soybean, sunflower, sugar beat. Farm have is recently increased its land possession from 200 ha by leasing 1.200 ha of land, however on remote place which provides no functional connection with the existing farm. This is a typical successful pig farm enterprise in expansion. Farm is based on following resources:

All slurry produced on farms is used on farm crops. There is no enough slurry for 200 ha, which is close to the farm, but since tanks for storing slurry are not sufficient to hold slurry, farm still wastes slurry in May and Jun by spreading it on neighboring farms.

This is a typical traditional farm of the region which compromise livestock production and crop production which is mainly intended to produce feeds. Grows maize, wheat, and sunflower. Farm is very poor considering equipment and machinery. It is based on the following resources:

Critical for this farm is collecting and storing of manure, as much as distribution, however production of manure on this farms is so small that purchase of required machinery for appropriate distribution of manure on this farm was never seriously considered. Building manure storage place, however seems to be priority.

The land is grown with maize, triticale, wheat, sunflower, alfalfa, and besides there is also 60 ha pasture. Uses manure, NPK, Urea, and ammonium nitrate. This is a farm with mixed crop-livestock production which is example of farm on which crop production dominates and livestock production is not very well organised. The production is based on the following resources:

Critical for this farm is collecting and storing of manure. Farm is a pure disaster considering stables, which are actually few improvised shelters plus one old stable without even basic conditions for dissent keeping of animals and collection of manure and effluents-liquid parts of manure. Effluents are running from shelter all around the farm in small creaks merging with those coming from stored manure and sucked in to soil. After manure is manually collected from stable, together with straw it’s stored in improvised way on two places in the yard. Manure is loosing in many ways its value and polluting environment. From other side this is a good example of over-equipped farm with different machinery which is not used in full capacity and rationaly.

This is a typical mixed family farm with diverse productions, and well maintained in classical way. Grows alfalfa, sugar beets, maize, and wheat.However farm is not well equipped, stables insufficient and production might be better organized. The production is as follows:

This farm has few problems considering manure management. One is definitely storing of manure directly on soil, another manual distribution on fields. Considering their good habits in storing manure in very organized way, improving it with concrete storage and better distribution through purchase of manure distributor will help this farm look fine.

11 ha, but is renting additional 300 ha next year. 15 sows now, but is building for a sectioned stable for 2000 finishing pigs. Will later build stables for weaners as well. Grows wheat and triticale. This small private pig farm enterprise in expansion, is a typical farm owned by young entrepreneur which is developing ambitiously, using recently large investments, but without sufficient knowledge about the organisation of the farm now appropriate dynamics for its development. The production on the farm is based on the following figures:

Although in expansion, this is a farm which still hasn’t solved basic problems. The critical issue is storing and management of slurry. What is missing are tanks, mixing and pumping equipment and distribution equipment. At the same time farmer plan to expand production, and again have no plans about increasing manure storing capacities. Farm poses no sufficient land surfaces to use rationally manure produced at the moment and even less if farm expand, but plans about expanding land possession exist, although pretty uncertain.