Tag: Dairy farming
Greenpeace: Cows belong on the pasture – Bavaria
The environmental organization Greenpeace is calling for more support for farmers who keep their dairy cows on pastures instead of exclusively in stables. “The proportion of dairy cows that are…
Upper Palatinate: How an old tie-stall became a modern cowshed – Bavaria
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.…
Bavaria: The feel-good stable from Bauer Himmelstoss – Bavaria
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…
How high milk prices are affecting organic farmers – Economy
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…
Allgäu farmers are taking action against the verdict for animal cruelty – Bavaria
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…
Confectionery: Ice cream manufacturers report a slump in sales in the Corona year 2021 – economy
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…
Ebersberg: Farmer about Aldi advertising campaign – Ebersberg
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…
Nutrition: The decline of milk
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…
Turkish farmer puts VR glasses on cows – panorama
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 –…
Allgäu: Overworked family makes cows suffer – Bavaria
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…