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2021-05-20T21:07:55.322Z


Potatoes from regional cultivation will continue to be available at the hot yard in Ismaning. Young farmer Elisabeth Widmann takes over the farm and takes care of production and marketing with her sister Katharina.


Potatoes from regional cultivation will continue to be available at the hot yard in Ismaning.

Young farmer Elisabeth Widmann takes over the farm and takes care of production and marketing with her sister Katharina.

Ismaning

- It's a lot of work, but still very nice.

“I really enjoy being outside in nature,” says Elisabeth Widmann.

The dams are now piled up in neat rows in the field.

The tubers are stuck in the earth.

By the time they sprout, it will be July this time.

"Everything is delayed by the cool weather," says the tuber expert.


The father trusted the daughter to do everything

Together with her sister Katharina, she takes on more and more responsibility at the hot yard.

“My sister and I already knew as children that we would continue to run the farm.” The fact that the young woman with long, blond hair drives large agricultural machines is nothing new.

At 16 she drove tractors, with 21 trucks. “I am lucky that my father always trusted me to do everything”, in the field, in the office, with the technology, - “like a son,” she says and laughs, “ he doesn't have one either. "


Grandmother's advice: "Learn to drive a tractor"

After graduating from the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium, Elisabeth Widmann began studying at the Technical University in Weihenstephan. The 23-year-old has had her bachelor's degree for a few days and is an agricultural scientist. Now she works full-time in potato cultivation. But her grandmother Anna Reisinger gave her good advice much earlier: “Learn to drive a tractor, then you don't have to work so hard, she always said.” The granddaughter takes this to heart and maneuvers harvesting and sorting machines. “I've always tried to drive everything. Technology makes it easier for you as a woman. "


She liked her studies, she says, her career choice is no longer that unusual, after all, a third of her class are women.

At the same time she learned the practical side from her father and in internships.

In Hamburg she worked in a dairy farm.


Sister Katharina is responsible for processing and sales

In 1995 the cattle left the stable on the hot farm, Christine and Mathias Widmann concentrated on growing potatoes with their family business.

Sister Katharina (26) takes on more and more tasks in the further processing of the potatoes, in sales and in marketing.

Because the floury Agria or the small rischole potatoes are peeled, sometimes cut into slices and pre-cooked.

Then Katharina and her mother Christine Widmann market the products in the farm shop or deliver them to restaurants and beer gardens.


Potatoes despite Corona

Cohesion with colleagues in the neighboring farms is important to her.

“We juggle together so that we can keep the crop rotation better or fields are next to each other,” says the 23-year-old, “we are really good at Ismaning.” But there is also a lot of work waiting in the hall.

This is where mother tubers germinate.

A fleece keeps you warm, lamps provide extra light.

“This is how beautiful, strong shoots form,” explains the young farmer.

In the first year of the Corona crisis, the demand for french fries and fried potatoes in restaurants and large kitchens fell sharply.

But more was cooked at home.

"We have slightly reduced our acreage due to the corona," reports Elisabeth.

But she is confident that the market will recover quickly. "The decisive factor for the harvest now is the weather."

Source: merkur

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