Prauliena Parish, Madona Municipality

Farmers: Agnese un Rūdolfs Medeņi

  • Organic farm
  • Farming since: 2016
  • Main activity: breeding of purebred Hereford beef cattle
  • Herd: approximately 100 cattle
  • Total managed area: 479 ha
  • Cereals: 120 ha
  • Grow oats, barley, buckwheat, potatoes
  • 2024. Meat processing launched in 2024
  • Manages a total of 230 ha of biologically valuable grasslands

Planned restoration: approximately 144 ha of grasslands

The following activities will be carried out at ZS “Kalna rubeņi”:

  • Clearance of overgrown grassland edges and stump milling
  • Levelling of ruts, furrows and excavations (disking, milling)
  • Establishment of pastures and introduction of grazing
  • Control of expansive species through restorative mowing and sowing of yellow rattle (6 ha, 240 kg)
  • Control of invasive species through ploughing and grazing
  • Reduction of soil fertility through deep ploughing
  • Introduction of characteristic species (through spreading green hay, leaving uncut areas, and seed sowing (50 ha, 10%, 200 kg))
  • Cleaning of ditches
  • Establishment of grazing infrastructure (shelter, watering equipment)