In the Upper Palatinate, a young part-time farmer shows how an old tie barn can be converted into modern cattle farming with the highest animal welfare standards with reasonable effort. A visit. Three or four farms, a trailer workshop and a few residential buildings: That's Ponholz in the Cham district. On gray winter days, the air here in the Oberpfälzer Hügelland feels particularly cold, especially when thick, wet snowflakes are falling. Wafts of clouds pass through the woods, swallowing every...
Three or four farms, a trailer workshop and a few residential buildings: That's Ponholz in the Cham district. On gray winter days, the air here in the Oberpfälzer Hügelland feels particularly cold, especially when thick, wet snowflakes are falling. Wafts of clouds pass through the woods, swallowing every sound. It's a godforsaken area. In the animal welfare scene and with Minister of Agriculture Michaela Kaniber (CSU), however, Ponholz has a special sound. Because here is the farm of Josef and...
Milk is becoming more and more expensive, but the winners of the crisis are not organic farmers, but conventional farmers. This has consequences - not only for consumers.This was not how Antonius and Peter Tillmann had imagined it: For a long time, father and son had thought about how to continue with their dairy farm, the Berghof in Bonenburg in East Westphalia. Whether they really go into the big milk business, build a big new barn and increase their small...
After being sentenced to prison terms for animal cruelty, two farmers are taking action against the verdict. As the spokesman for the district court in Memmingen, Jürgen Brinkmann, said on Wednesday, the two accused had each appealed. Last week, the 68- and 25-year-old men, father and son, were sentenced to two years and two years and ten months, respectively. The father's prison sentence was suspended.The farmers were each found guilty of atrocious abuse of vertebrate animals by omission. The presiding...
Measuring people's happiness is a difficult task. But you can at least get close to it by counting the scoops of ice cream that slip through people's mouths over the course of a year. Neuroscientists at the Institute of Psychiatry in London have long wanted to prove that sweet and iced cream makes you happy. Accordingly, the cool lick stimulates similar brain regions as, for example, the sound of your favorite song or winning the lottery. At least that's what...
Bernhard Haimmerer is a farmer. He says: In Bavarian agriculture, more is done right than is often acknowledged. A conversation about fair milk prices, hypocritical advertising campaigns and why children are taught a distorted image of animal husbandry in school.Interviewed by Corbinian Eisenberger, AnzingBernhard Haimmerer, 51, has been a farmer for as long as he can remember. At the age of three he sat with his father in the Bulldog cab over the rim. Later his own son sat there....
It was once a staple food, more than that, a symbol of home and purity. And today? Do we know where milk comes from and what's in it? About a culture break. .source site
Farmer Izzet Kocak, 30, from Aksaray, Turkey, takes unconventional paths. In order to get more milk from his cows in winter, he puts virtual reality glasses on the animals - so that the cows think they are grazing on a lush pasture, while in reality they are standing in the barn and being milked. It works: there are five or six liters more in the milk cans than in previous years.SZ: Good morning, Mr. Kocak. You are not allowed to...
Overcrowded stables, emaciated cows, inflamed claws with rotten bandages and cattle lying in excrement: Gabriele Fuchs uses photos to describe the conditions on the large farm of an Allgäu family in December 2019. The cows and calves there suffered "unbelievable pain" have to - and that "not just since yesterday," says the official veterinarian.The former managers of the dairy farm, a married couple and their adult son, have been answerable to the Kempten District Court for massive violations of the...
