Organic farming is often seen as the ideal way to meet numerous challenges facing agriculture. Anyway, it is too easy to draw a simple opposition between “organic” and “conventional” - a sustainable agriculture in the long term is needed.
Edible insects are a niche product in the EU. However, issues such as sustainability, environmental protection and food security for a growing world population are increasingly attracting the attention of companies. The signs are pointing to growth.
In the discussion about sustainable nutrition, it is often suggested that the production of animal-based foods in particular is not sustainable. Demands are then quickly made to significantly reduce livestock farming in order to lessen the environmental impact. But this is a rather one-sided view.
As a counterweight to China, the subcontinent is once again coming more strongly into Western focus. On the one hand, there are countless small farmers without technology or capital. On the other hand, there is accelerated mechanization, which is expected to stimulate growth in the agricultural machinery and supplier industry.
Stefan Wüthrich is a DLG member and manages with his family an organic dairy farm of about 50 ha with 70 cows in the Three Lakes region in Switzerland. His main production branch is dairy farming for cheese production. In addition, he keeps 4,000 organic broilers.
DLG Member Edvinas Samkus from Lithuania organizes professional agricultural tours. A regular focus are trips to the DLG trade fairs Agritechnica and EuroTier in Hanover, Germany.
Dr Alfred Schreiberhuber from Austria has been a DLG member since 1995 and farms in the Traunviertel region of the federal province of Upper Austria. The chronicles of the Schreiberhuber Farm & Forest Estate encompass the closely intertwined histories of three farms, family-owned for more than 700 years. From Plassgut, the ancestral seat, the Plassgut at Ansfelden, the Auhof Residence at Kremsmünster and the Summerauerhof at St. Florian are administered.
