The Milk Summit
South Tyrolean yoghurt is very popular in Italy: South Tyrol's share of the Italian yoghurt market has risen again by a further ten per cent to currently around 50 per cent of the Italian yoghurt market. source: www.tageszeitung.it
Arla sales in Sonthofen: Managing directors of "Allgäuer Hof-Milch" learnt at "Allgäuland"
At the beginning of 2016, dairy technician Matthias Haug and master dairyman Johannes Nussbaumer founded "Allgäuer Hof-Milch GmbH" - both originally trained at the Allgäuland cheese dairies, which once also owned the dairy in Sonthofen. Isn't it an ambitious goal for a small, young dairy to buy the large milk plant in Sonthofen from Arla? Source: www.all-in.de
Dr Markus Höper takes up his post
Rosenheim - Around five months after the founding of Landschaftspflegeverband Rosenheim e.V., the board has appointed a managing director. Dr Markus Höper will take up his post on 1 May Source: www.rosenheim24.de
Farmers on alert
The dairy industry is happy about higher yields. But no one is talking about easing the situation yet. The death of farmers continues. Vienna. 380,000 tonnes. That's how much milk powder is waiting for buyers in warehouses across Europe. The 380,000 tonnes are a remnant of the milk crisis that gripped the continent in 2015 and 2016. They were bought up cheaply by the EU. This was just one of the many actions taken to get a grip on overproduction after the fixed milk quota fell in spring 2015. source: diepresse.com
Special mowers for sensitive nature
TIEFGRABEN. Gentle motorised mowers are now available for the moorland meadows around the Irrsee lake near Zell am Moos and Tiefgraben. "We have taken an important step towards mowing particularly sensitive areas such as moorland meadows and steep slopes." This is how Alois Gaderer, chairman of the Irrseeland residents' and maintenance cooperative - the first of its kind in Upper Austria - describes a special project. The aim is to mow the areas around the Irrsee and the slopes in Oberhofen, Zell am Moos and Tiefgraben more gently. source: www.nachrichten.at
Prices for organic milk remain high
Organic milk prices maintained their high level in February. At the same time, farm-gate prices for conventionally produced milk fell significantly. Source: www.agrarheute.com
The organic burger
Ex-agricultural councillor and former senator Hans Berger converted his family farm in Rein in Taufers to organic farming twelve years ago. He is convinced that his courage is paying off. source: www.tageszeitung.it
Hay milk is on everyone's lips
More than two thirds of Austrians buy products made from hay milk, almost 60 per cent even several times a month. The most popular hay milk products are milk and cheese. source: www.cash.at
Biodiversity of grassland-dominated cultural landscapes under the microscope
The declining biodiversity in our ecosystems is a growing topic in the media. The national biodiversity strategy and the Bavarian strategy for preserving and increasing biodiversity have set themselves the goal of preserving particularly species-rich areas outside protected areas and linking them together in a meaningful way. In a three-year research project funded by the Free State of Bavaria, Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences is investigating which habitats in grassland-dominated landscapes are particularly species-rich, what diversity of species and vegetation types are present and what perennial nature conservation measures can achieve. source: idw-online.de
Exchange of cultures
A third of German cheese production comes from Bavaria. In 2017, 930,000 tonnes of cheese were produced in Bavaria; this is the second largest production volume ever after the record year of 2015. Cheese is also produced diligently in the district of Ebersberg: There are four cheese dairies in the Glonn area alone. source: www.sueddeutsche.de
Every square metre of nature counts
Renningen - "People always talk about protecting biodiversity as a matter of course," explains biologist Martin Klatt. "But what is usually meant is biological diversity, biodiversity." On Friday, the expert on species and biotope protection from the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (Nabu) Baden-Württemberg gave the second part of the three-part lecture series organised by Nabu in Renningen on insect mortality and explained what can be done about it. Source: www.leonberger-kreiszeitung.de
Species decline in agricultural land - making a turnaround possible
Today's European cultural landscape has been developing through human utilisation for around 7,000 years. In earlier times, traditional farming practices created diverse landscapes to which numerous new animal and plant species adapted. Source: www.finanznachrichten.de