Auditing standards and commissions
The methods, test profiles and standards of the DLG Test Center are manufacturer-independent and based on state-of-the-art measurement and testing procedures. The DLG test guidelines are developed by test committees - consisting of leading practitioners, scientists, experts from associations, consultants and administrative experts - together with the DLG test engineers. The test guidelines reflect the current state of the art and are based on objective, recognised methods that provide reproducible results.
- Honorary Chairman of DLG Test Center Technology and Farm Inputs:
Prof. Till Meinel
Faculty of Plant, Energy and Machine Systems, Institute of Civil and Agricultural Engineering in Cologne, Germany (IBL)
- Strategy Advisory Board
The Strategy Advisory Board is composed of voluntary representatives from industry, consulting and practice.
- Technical Advisory Board
The Technical Advisory Board is composed of the chairpersons of the individual DLG inspection committees.
DLG Commissions:
Animal Husbandry Technology
- Cattle husbandry
Chairman: Klaus-Werner Wolf, Höchst (Odw.) – Responsible test engineer: Dr. Harald Reubold - Pig husbandry technology
To be convened shortly
Agricultural Emissions
- Exhaust air purification
Chairman: Dr. rer. nat. Jochen Hahne (Braunschweig) – Responsible test engineer: Tommy Pfeifer
- Indoor methods for emission reduction
Chairman: N. N. – Responsible test engineer: Tommy Pfeifer
Crop Production Technology
- Soil cultivation and sowing technology
Chairman: Dr. Markus Demmel (Freising-Weihenstephan) – Responsible test engineer: Georg Schuchmann
- Fertiliser technology (incl. solid/liquid separation)
Chairman: N. N. – Responsible test engineer: Georg Schuchmann
- Feed recovery technology
Chairman: Heinz-Günter Gerighausen (Kleve) – Responsible test engineer: Georg Schuchmann
Digitalisation and Electronics
- Digitalisation and electronics
To be convened shortly
Vehicle Technology
- Vehicle technology
Chairman: Roger Stirnimann – Responsible test engineer: Stefano Mastrogiovanni (acting)
Farm Inputs & Consumables
- Fertilising lime
Chairman: Klaus Münchhoff (Derenburg) – Responsible test engineer: Dr. Michael Eise
- Soil protection lime
Chairman: Dr. Klaus von Wilpert (Freiburg i. Breisgau) – Responsible test engineer: Dr. Michael Eise
- Foils and nets
Chairman: Udo Dengel (Würzburg) – Responsible test engineer: Dr. Harald Reubold
- Feed
Chairman: Prof. Dr. habil. Wilhelm Windisch (Freising-Weihenstephan) – Responsible test engineer: Dr. Michael Eise
- Silage additives
Chairman: Dr. Johannes Thaysen (Kiel) – Responsible test engineer: Dr. Michael Eise
- Hygiene in agricultural and food sector
Chairman: N. N. – Responsible test engineer: Dr. Michael Eise
Prüfrahmen
- Testing program for silage films that are free of regenerated material and contain regenerated material
- Elastic walkway pads in cubicle housing
- Elastic stable floor coverings
- Fuel consumption of tractors - PowerMix
- Fuel efficiency of tractors
- DLG–PowerMix transport test
- Isobus practice
- Camera monitor systems
- Seed drills
- Precision seeders
- Tillage implements
- Hoeing machines
- Mulching equipment
- Straw harrows
- Big balers
- Round balers
- Self-loading trailers
- Mowers
- Windrowers for harvesting fodder
- Tedders and turners for harvesting fodder
- Mixer feeders
- Floor systems for horses - under revision
- Sty floors for pigs - under revision
- Ammonia resistance of (electrical) devices and components in barns
- Grain moisture meters
- Barn lights
- Portable bidirectional satellite systems
- Stationary bidirectional satellite systems
- Liquid manure tankers and distribution systems
- Sensors for determining constituents in passing slurry
- Spreaders for solid farm and secondary raw material fertilisers
- Mobile sensors on forage harvesters for determining the dry matter content in maize, grass and whole plant silage
- Self-propelled forage harvesters
- Exhaust air purification systems for animal husbandry facilities