AGRANA: autumn campaign 2025 fully under way
Date: 09.09.2025
With the start of wet corn processing in Aschach/Donau yesterday, the 2025 autumn campaigns are now in full swing at five AGRANA sites across Austria. “Our teams have fully prepared the sites for the campaigns and performed various set-up and maintenance tasks aiming to achieve more energy efficiency and CO2 reductions,” explains AGRANA CEO Stephan Büttner. At the sugar mill in Tulln, for example, there is now greater reliance on biogas from its own production activities while at the starch mill in Gmünd there has been investment in a heat recovery system for this year’s campaign.
Sugar beet
AGRANA launched its sugar beet processing campaign at the sugar mill in Tulln on 5 September. Thanks to generally favourable weather conditions this year, the sugar beets have developed well. The weather in the fall will be decisive for the final sugar formation.
Starch potatoes and wet corn
The processing of industrial starch potatoes in Gmünd began on 25 August. Favorable sowing conditions in spring, combined with a rainy summer and few hot days in the growing regions, have supported potato growth. The campaign in Gmünd is expected to be completed in January 2026. The wet corn processing campaigns began at the end of August in Pischelsdorf (Lower Austria) and on 8 September in Aschach/Donau and are forecast to continue until December. This will be followed by a switch back to the processing of dry corn.
Apples
AGRANA launched the apple processing campaign at the AUSTRIA JUICE fruit juice concentrate facility in Kröllendorf (Lower Austria) on 1 September. The apple campaign is expected to be concluded at the end of October.