Possibilities of Community-Encompassing Transborder Farming Using Zeilitzheim as an Example

Abstract

Virtual land consolidation in the form of transborder farming of entire community areas offers farmers in small-structured areas the possibility of using the advantages of larger field sizes both in the long and the short run without requiring field rearrangement, which is often difficult to accomplish. The reduction of time requirements, necessary operating resources, forecrop areas, and overlapping areas equally reduce the burden on the environment, the soil, and the farmer´s wallet. The use of automatic data acquisition allows all yields and expenditures related to the cooperatively used transborder fields to be attributed to the partici- pating farmers according to their property.