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About the project:

This tool is part of the LIFT ('Low-Input Farming and Territories – Integrating knowledge for improving ecosystem-based farming') project that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 770747.

The overall goal of LIFT is to identify the potential benefits of the adoption of ecological farming in the European Union (EU) and to understand how socio-economic and policy factors impact the adoption, performance and sustainability of ecological farming at various scales, from the level of the single farm to that of a territory.

About the tool:

The main objective of the tool is to assign a farm to one of the ecological types identified in the LIFT farm typology, based on user data (see tab 'User data'). The tool gives a graphical snapshot of the current situation of a farm in terms of ecological practices, and offers the possibility to explore effects of input changes (see tab 'Ecological type').

Further, the LIFT typology-tool enables to compare performances covering the economic, social and employment, as well as environmental dimensions of farms belonging to different ecological types, taking into account bioregions and types of farming (TF) (see tab 'Peer-Comparison').

Instructions and explanations on how to use the tool are available on:

including:

Please fill out all input fields in the tabs below or upload your data in the side panel on your left.

Farm ID:

Select your country:

Select your bioregion:

Select your type of farming:

Data year:

Total utilised agricultural area (in ha)

Thereof forage crop area (in ha)

Thereof rented utilised agricultural area (in ha)

Are you certified organic?

In conversion

Yes

How do you want to enter your livestock data?

in livestock units (LU)

in animal numbers

Livestock units
Animal numbers

Grazing livestock units

Pigs & poultry livestock units

Other livestock units

Bovine animals:

Dairy cows

Other cows, heifers, 2 years old and over

Male, 2 years old and over

Bovine, 1 but less than 2 years old

Bovine, under 1 year old

Other grazing animals:

Sheep and goats

Equidae

Pigs:

Piglets having a live weight of under 20 kg

Breeding sows weighing 50 kg and over

Other pigs

Poultry:

Broilers

Laying hens

Ostriches

Other poultry

Other:

Rabbits, breeding females

Livestock in livestock units:

Feed for grazing (in EUR)

Purchased concentrated feedstuffs for grazing stock

Purchased coarse fodder for grazing stock

Feed for grazing livestock home-grown

Grazing days

Feed for pigs and poultry (in EUR)

Purchased feedstuffs for pigs

Purchased feedstuffs for poultry and other small animals

Feed for pigs and poultry home-grown

Veterinary expenses (in EUR)

Fertilisers (in EUR)

Fertilisers N

Fertilisers P

Fertilisers K

Crop protection (in EUR)

Seeds and Plants (in EUR)

Total

Thereof home-grown

Water use (in EUR)

Energy (in EUR)

Heating fuels use

Motor fuels and lubricants use

Electricity use

Own produced energy (excess)

Machinery & buildings current costs (in EUR)

Total physical assets depreciation (in EUR)

Total assets

Agricultural land (closing value)

Total liabilities

Cash flow / farm total capital

Total output

Total subsidies - excluding on investments

Total intermediate consumption

Interest paid

Wages paid

Rent paid

Thereof rent paid for land

Estimated average interest rate

Estimated average labour costs per hour

Estimated average rental costs per ha

Total labour (in AWU)

Thereof paid labour (in AWU)

Unpaid labour (in hours)

Paid labour (in hours)

Manager paid (in AWU)

Other labour paid (in AWU)

Casual labour paid (in AWU)

Manager paid (in persons)

Other labour paid (in persons)

Casual labour paid (in persons)

Bioregion:

Farm type:

Ecological type:

To find the desired definition, go to the sub-tab named as the tab where the term you are looking for is.

Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Glossary:Livestock_unit_(LSU)

You have to reach a minimum score of 3 (out of 4) to be defined as a certain ecological type. The scores are based on predefined thresholds, which can be downloaded on the side panel.

The Organic-type does not depend on input variables, but only whether the farm has stated to be certified organic or in conversion.

The variables used to define the Low-input-type are explained in the table below:

The variables used to define the Integrated-type are explained in the table below:

LIFT Typology-Tool

Import input data:

Select your variable format:

Select your file:

Select the ID of the farm to be analysed:

Download data:

Which peer group file do you want to use?

Do you want the peer group mean or median?

Select your new peer group file:

Which threshold file do you want to use?

Select your new threshold file:

Which price adjustment file do you want to use?

Select your new adjustment file:

Generate a summary report:

Give your report a name:

About the project:

This tool is part of the LIFT ('Low-Input Farming and Territories – Integrating knowledge for improving ecosystem-based farming') project that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 770747.

About the tool:

Further, the LIFT typology-tool enables to compare performances covering the economic, social and employment, as well as environmental dimensions of farms belonging to different ecological types, taking into account bioregions and types of farming (TF) (see tab 'Peer-Comparison').

Instructions and explanations on how to use the tool are available on:

Please fill out all input fields in the tabs below or upload your data in the side panel on your left.

Farm ID:

Select your country:

Select your bioregion:

Select your type of farming:

Data year:

Total utilised agricultural area (in ha)

Thereof forage crop area (in ha)

Thereof rented utilised agricultural area (in ha)

Are you certified organic?

How do you want to enter your livestock data?

Grazing livestock units

Pigs & poultry livestock units

Other livestock units

Bovine animals:

Dairy cows

Other cows, heifers, 2 years old and over

Male, 2 years old and over

Bovine, 1 but less than 2 years old

Bovine, under 1 year old

Other grazing animals:

Sheep and goats

Equidae

Pigs:

Piglets having a live weight of under 20 kg

Breeding sows weighing 50 kg and over

Other pigs

Poultry:

Broilers

Laying hens

Ostriches

Other poultry

Other:

Rabbits, breeding females

Livestock in livestock units:

Feed for grazing (in EUR)

Purchased concentrated feedstuffs for grazing stock

Purchased coarse fodder for grazing stock

Feed for grazing livestock home-grown

Grazing days

Feed for pigs and poultry (in EUR)

Purchased feedstuffs for pigs

Purchased feedstuffs for poultry and other small animals

Feed for pigs and poultry home-grown

Veterinary expenses (in EUR)

Fertilisers (in EUR)

Fertilisers N

Fertilisers P

Fertilisers K

Crop protection (in EUR)

Seeds and Plants (in EUR)

Total

Thereof home-grown

Water use (in EUR)

Energy (in EUR)

Heating fuels use

Motor fuels and lubricants use

Electricity use

Own produced energy (excess)

Machinery & buildings current costs (in EUR)