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The Farm
The Dairy

Characteristic

The Farm

Němec’s family is an old farmer family with ancestry documented from the year 1621, when the oldest known ancestor Mikulas Němec was born. In 1654 he was cultivating 60 strikes of fields and bred 2 horses, 4 cows, 2 sows and one cow calf. The family is settled in the village of Radonice from the 70’s of the 19th century, the father of the contemporary owner of the farm, Miloslav Němec was farming after the communist putsch privately as one of the last farmers in the neighbourhood.

Contemporary owners of the farm Stanislav and Hana Němec, both agricultural engineers, have peg to the family tradition and have been farming since 1990.

The area of the farm has increased from the original 27 hectares in 1990, over 40 hectares in the following year to 220 in 1992 up to the contemporary area of 850 hectares, which the farm has been cultivating since 2009.

In the year 1991 the cowshed with free housing and milk house in the original farmhouse in Radonice was reconstructed and until the year 2000 the concern was breeding approximately 60 pieces of cattle of the breed Montbeliarde. The efficiency got round 6 200 litres per dairy. Because of the limited space, location in the middle of the village and problems with hands the breed of cattle definitely abolished in 2002.

The house The house

The cultivated land is located in very fertile sugar-beet growing region and thus the main stress is put on crop farming. In 2002 the program of intensification and specialization of crop farming has begun and so nowadays on 1/3 of the area is cultured winter wheat, on 1/3 brewer’s barley, on 1/3 technical crops- rape, sugar beet, poppy etc.. The classic ploughing technique is asserted with minimalization components. In the year 2009 the new Horsch machines were bought- Horsch 3MT, Horsch Sprinter 6M. The average yield in last year has been 7 tons in wheat, 6 tons in barley and 3,8 tons in rape.

Barley Wheat

The machinery provides full self-support, the service is used just marginally for protection of the crop or for the harvesting. The main parts of the machinery pool are tractors Fendt 933, New Holand T 7040, New Holland TM 190, New Holland TS 115 and John Deere 6610, combine Claas Lexion 480 and other machines as seeding machine, compactor, sprinkle etc. About 500ha is harvest every year as a service for other farmers.

Machines New Holland T115 John Deere 6610
New Holland T7040 Claas Lexion 480

Because of the shortage of space in the original farmhouse a brand new farm with storage halls, workshop and mainly with a new dairy was built in 1994 on the green meadow.

Office house Dairy

Another storage hall for grain was built in 2002. This hall together with another building rented in the village Veleň serves as procurement and storage centre of brewer’s barley with a capacity of 10 000 tons.

Storage hall

The dairy albeit formally independent, is an integral part of the company..

In 2007 the gross sales reached more than 68,3 million CZK, whence agricultural production turned out approximately 23,5 million CZK and the dairy 44,8 million CZK.

There are 10 employees working in the company, from which 4 in agricultural production, 6 in the dairy. The management of the company is formed by the owners Stanislav Němec and Hana Němcová.

The company is developing its own social program, for example most of the employee, live in company’s flats. Own riding school serves for leisure time of the youth from the neighbourhood. The diary is also the organizer of the business college SOVA in Neratovice

Horses Horses Horses

Our ambition is to be one of the best farms in the Czech Republic. In 2006 we were appreciated by honour title "The farmer of the Central Bohemia County" with the award of the minister for regional development. The farm has been visited by a lot of excursions from whole the world and by many very important persons. For example:

As well as representatives of the World Bank, foreign diplomats, journalists and so on.

Harvest home Harvest home

In 10th April 2008, the official press conference of the Ministry of agriculture of the Czech Republic took place at the farm, with participation of the prime minister Mirek Topolánek, minister of agriculture Petr Gandalovič and his first assistant Ivo Hlaváč.

Press conference Press conference
Press conference Press conference

The owner Stanislav Němec is the honorary president of The association of private farming of the Czech Republic.

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