Yes.

Yes, individual participation is possible.

Nano-Farm is an integrated agricultural business concept. Through structured, inter-farm organization – using fixed costs as an example – efficiency and comfort in fieldwork, and consequently your agricultural income, are improved.

The example of fixed costs shows you how this works in practice. After participating, the Nano-Farm concept can be used independently by a group of agricultural entrepreneurs or even on your own. Each group determines the degree of integration of agricultural work processes based on its own level of maturity in order to maximize fixed cost savings.

Nano-Farm offers a safe and supportive environment where you can test the Nano-Farm system at your own pace.

1. Select a field of at least 1.5 hectares (must be one field in MFA; exception LSE)
2. Participation for 3 years with the option to terminate participation annually
3. The basis is a lease agreement (lessor: participating farmer; lessee: Nano-Farm).
4. Optimal transfer prices are agreed upon for work steps.
5. You carry out all work steps on the field as usual.
6. Nano-Farm pays for all work steps and the entire profit as a profit-based lease.
7. Complete breakdown of expenses for the 1.5 hectares (e.g., wheat)
8. The fixed cost potential is illustrated by comparing your current situation with the optimal transfer prices.
9. In addition, you receive a projection of the 1.5 hectares (e.g., wheat) to your entire cultivated area (e.g., 30 hectares of wheat). So, if you’re smart, you can achieve this in 3 years for 3 crops!

Your contact person will be an employee of Agrarservices Vedaxs. For the majority of participants, that will be me.

Without leasing, you lack the added value leverage to unlock your fixed cost potential and improve your agricultural income. It would be like a tractor without an engine.

After or even during your participation in Nano-Farm, you can take your own steps to increase your fixed cost potential and improve your agricultural income. One strategy could be to work towards your goal in small steps, for example, gradually increasing 30% of the potential. Another could be to take a large step towards your goal, for example, increasing 70% of the potential in one step, and then increasing the remaining portion later.

Yes. Here are three pieces of good news:

1. As soon as a piece of equipment is used fully or partially across multiple farms, you’re already unlocking some of your fixed cost potential! This applies to machinery cooperatives, neighborly farmer assistance, secondary agricultural activities, or contract work. Nano-Farm focuses on fixed costs (machinery cooperatives). Purchasing, marketing, etc., are not fixed costs.
2. As long as the entire fleet of a farm isn’t fully shared across multiple farms, agricultural income can be further improved.The optimum is around 1,500 [!] hectares of cultivated land. With every cooperative that covers less land, fixed costs can be reduced even further.As a rule of thumb, anything under 800 hectares compared to the optimum will result in a noticeable reduction in fixed costs. In day-to-day agricultural operations, cooperatives typically operate on an average of 150-300 hectares. There’s clearly untapped fixed cost potential here. How much exactly? You’ll learn this with Nano-Farm.
3. The “crutch” of service life. Small-scale farming operations often tempt farmers to believe that doubling or tripling crop life will reduce annual fixed costs to a minimum. However, the significant drawback is that you, as a farmer, completely eliminate any room for maneuver.

   Any minimal inter-farm cooperation regarding machinery (i.e., neighborly assistance among farmers) is better than the “crutch” of crop life because it protects you against routine, tunnel vision, farm fatigue, etc., by preserving and utilizing your flexibility.