My OperaBavaria - |A Different World A Few Kilometers From The Border
Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:35:20 AM
AS cooperation with DuPont, the main partner of the farm in 2012, continues this year. One of the results of the three-day June trip to the most beautiful German Lender - Bavaria. Four tens of travelers (APT members), the company took care of partial cover and help with choosing the professional program. This included a visit to three family farms, brewery in Intrastate, companies Byway in Hammerstein and cheese Undermanned in Waging am See. The aim of the tour has become Southeast - Upper Bavaria.
Bavaria has many mo ...
Upper Bavaria is one of the seven districts of the government of Bavaria, the others are the Lower and Middle Bavaria, Upper and Lower Francisco, Upper Palatinate and Swab. The seven districts are further divided into 71 provincial and 25 municipal districts. With an area of 70,000 square kilometers Bavaria is the largest of the 16 federal states of Germany (total area of the country is 357,000 square kilometers), with more than 12 million inhabitants, then the second most populous.
It is also important Bavaria agrarian countries of Germany and the largest producer of food. More than a quarter of the German milk production comes from Bavarian cows, about half the area of the land is used for agricultural production. This contributes roughly 118,000 Bavarian farms significantly to the preservation of the cultural landscape. Agriculture here is largely in the hands of family businesses that frequently deal just above Ami dairy farming. Here you will find farms with twenty, but also a thousand cows. Crop production and mainly serves to provide fodder base, but are also grown cereals, asparagus, grapes and hops.
Intensive milk production Stockhausen
The first point of our training program was a visit to the farm Martina Undermanned Stockhausen village located about 70 km southeast of Munich. His farm with intensive milk production is at an altitude of 470-480 meters above sea level, in areas with high rainfall - about 1000 mm per year.
Martin is the first generation Maidenhair who Stockhausen farm. His parents had rented residential part of the farm, farming beginnings ten years ago, related to the purchase of residential buildings, building sheds, milking parlors, buying cattle, purchase and lease of land has already been completely under his direction. Currently behaves in two free stall barns with 160 hold and roughly the same number of heifers. In the summer begin construction of a third, and a capacity of 250 cows and dimensions of 80 mix 20 m As you can see, preparing for the fall in milk quotas are in our western neighbors in full swing, which we confirmed by Martin himself. Obstacle for them is no loss of subsidies for milk production, they will receive this year as last, and that is certainly not negligible - the farmer visited us last year amounted to EUR 28,000. The interest of dairies is huge, Bavarian farmers can boldly choose their customers. Mr. Maidenhair supplies daily four thousand liters of milk containing 4% fat and 3.3% protein dairy in nearby Oppenheimer as their purchase price 39 cents / l is satisfied. It is finalizing production of local farmers directly in the region without undue wandering hundreds of miles, in addition mostly in family businesses, in Bavaria us quite excited. Whether it was the milk, meat, wine and hops.
Stockhausen peasant farms of 80 hectares, of which 20 are own. He considers himself fortunate that the purchase of land began ten years ago, when the price per hectare was around EUR 35,000, today it has 120,000, rents have now climbed to 500 EUR / ha, in the several tens of km away from the Stockhausen But normally applies to 1000 EUR! The price of land here for the last two years has increased greatly, do not purchase it was not so much a farmer as more investors. Its acreage is mainly used to provide feed for cattle - from 40 hectares will come six cuts of grass silage, maize grown on the rest. Seče including transport handles using quality machinery itself, for silage uses the services of the neighboring farmers. Considered sufficient for the amount of the direct payment scheme - 349 EUR / ha.
In the operation of the farm is involved the whole family, including children aged 9, 10 and 12 years. Morning milking is entirely directed by Martin evening then his wife, which moreover takes care of all the paperwork. Hard mode in the form of services, and children - every day should be one of them take care of the calves. Nevertheless, the majority of travelers agree that it's unique charm family farm has been in surplus Maidenhair visible efforts manager of increasingly intense gain a little shiver even when his opinions expressed aloud: "Farm's not building and so do the children."
Beer Purity Law in practice
Has a long tradition in Bavaria growing hops and brewing. Bavarian hop growing area Hallelujah (between Longstanding and Land shut) is the largest hop-growing areas in the world, a quarter of world production of the crop ripens here. For the production of Bavarian beer binds the oldest food law in the world, the beer purity law (Reinvestigation). It shows that its production may be used only malt, hops and water. This and much else had the opportunity to convince farmers in the Czech brewery in rodinySailerových Hausdorff Einstein.
Bavaria has many mo ...
Upper Bavaria is one of the seven districts of the government of Bavaria, the others are the Lower and Middle Bavaria, Upper and Lower Francisco, Upper Palatinate and Swab. The seven districts are further divided into 71 provincial and 25 municipal districts. With an area of 70,000 square kilometers Bavaria is the largest of the 16 federal states of Germany (total area of the country is 357,000 square kilometers), with more than 12 million inhabitants, then the second most populous.
It is also important Bavaria agrarian countries of Germany and the largest producer of food. More than a quarter of the German milk production comes from Bavarian cows, about half the area of the land is used for agricultural production. This contributes roughly 118,000 Bavarian farms significantly to the preservation of the cultural landscape. Agriculture here is largely in the hands of family businesses that frequently deal just above Ami dairy farming. Here you will find farms with twenty, but also a thousand cows. Crop production and mainly serves to provide fodder base, but are also grown cereals, asparagus, grapes and hops.
Intensive milk production Stockhausen
The first point of our training program was a visit to the farm Martina Undermanned Stockhausen village located about 70 km southeast of Munich. His farm with intensive milk production is at an altitude of 470-480 meters above sea level, in areas with high rainfall - about 1000 mm per year.
Martin is the first generation Maidenhair who Stockhausen farm. His parents had rented residential part of the farm, farming beginnings ten years ago, related to the purchase of residential buildings, building sheds, milking parlors, buying cattle, purchase and lease of land has already been completely under his direction. Currently behaves in two free stall barns with 160 hold and roughly the same number of heifers. In the summer begin construction of a third, and a capacity of 250 cows and dimensions of 80 mix 20 m As you can see, preparing for the fall in milk quotas are in our western neighbors in full swing, which we confirmed by Martin himself. Obstacle for them is no loss of subsidies for milk production, they will receive this year as last, and that is certainly not negligible - the farmer visited us last year amounted to EUR 28,000. The interest of dairies is huge, Bavarian farmers can boldly choose their customers. Mr. Maidenhair supplies daily four thousand liters of milk containing 4% fat and 3.3% protein dairy in nearby Oppenheimer as their purchase price 39 cents / l is satisfied. It is finalizing production of local farmers directly in the region without undue wandering hundreds of miles, in addition mostly in family businesses, in Bavaria us quite excited. Whether it was the milk, meat, wine and hops.
Stockhausen peasant farms of 80 hectares, of which 20 are own. He considers himself fortunate that the purchase of land began ten years ago, when the price per hectare was around EUR 35,000, today it has 120,000, rents have now climbed to 500 EUR / ha, in the several tens of km away from the Stockhausen But normally applies to 1000 EUR! The price of land here for the last two years has increased greatly, do not purchase it was not so much a farmer as more investors. Its acreage is mainly used to provide feed for cattle - from 40 hectares will come six cuts of grass silage, maize grown on the rest. Seče including transport handles using quality machinery itself, for silage uses the services of the neighboring farmers. Considered sufficient for the amount of the direct payment scheme - 349 EUR / ha.
In the operation of the farm is involved the whole family, including children aged 9, 10 and 12 years. Morning milking is entirely directed by Martin evening then his wife, which moreover takes care of all the paperwork. Hard mode in the form of services, and children - every day should be one of them take care of the calves. Nevertheless, the majority of travelers agree that it's unique charm family farm has been in surplus Maidenhair visible efforts manager of increasingly intense gain a little shiver even when his opinions expressed aloud: "Farm's not building and so do the children."
Beer Purity Law in practice
Has a long tradition in Bavaria growing hops and brewing. Bavarian hop growing area Hallelujah (between Longstanding and Land shut) is the largest hop-growing areas in the world, a quarter of world production of the crop ripens here. For the production of Bavarian beer binds the oldest food law in the world, the beer purity law (Reinvestigation). It shows that its production may be used only malt, hops and water. This and much else had the opportunity to convince farmers in the Czech brewery in rodinySailerových Hausdorff Einstein.
