"Farming of the future": EU Agriculture Commissioner visiting Grub and Zehmerhof

Created: 06/21/2022, 18:41

By: Armin Rösl

EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski in the Zehmerhof.

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EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski visited the Zehmerhof in Gelting on Tuesday and praised it as "agriculture of the future".

Before that he was visiting Grub.

Grub/Gelting – EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski found out how hospitable Bavarian farmers can be on Tuesday afternoon at the Zehmerhof in Gelting.

At the end of his visit, the senior bosses Andrea and Anton Huber with junior boss (and daughter-in-law) Sophie Scharl and the trainee Laura Stegemann (who is also the acting German Christmas tree queen) did not let the agricultural commissioner and his entourage from the Bavarian Ministry of Agriculture pull away so easily as they wanted to move in the direction of the exit: "Sit down, we have homemade cakes and appetizers for you," Andrea Huber invited the group with her heartfelt openness and winning laughter.

Press conference in the garden of the LfL in Grub.

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Nobody should have regretted the samples, just as little as EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski his visit to the farm shop of the Zehmerhof himself. There the bosses reported on their business, the development in recent years to the enlarged farm shop and their concept.

Regional and seasonal products, some from our own production, some from suppliers.

Many of them have been in partnership for years, sometimes decades.

Condition: "You have to think the same thing and want the same thing - then it works," said Anton Huber.

According to Huber, there was a conscious decision not to use purely ecological agriculture or the corresponding offers: only a few consumers would be able to afford the associated higher price structure.

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At the press conference about an hour earlier on the premises of the State Institute for Agriculture in Grub, EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski said: "It's no secret that family and regional agriculture is important to me." How it works (and tastes good) in practice he later experienced away from the media hype at the Zehmerhof.

"This type of farming and marketing is the future," praised Wojciechowski at the end when he finally went to the exit and on to the next appointment.

Group picture with EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski.

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The Bavarian Council of Ministers met in the LfL in Grub on Tuesday to discuss agricultural issues and the future of agriculture.

At the press conference in the LfL garden, Wojciechowski and Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) emphasized that - not only in view of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the resulting supply bottlenecks, for example with grain - food security and independence is just as important as Energy security and independence.

Therefore, according to Söder, the Bavarian state government is demanding from the federal government and the EU, among other things, more cultivation options, more regionality and stable prices for producers and consumers.

"What we want less," says Söder, "is more bureaucracy".

The Huber family reports on the concept and obstacles

The Hubers in Gelting can tell you a thing or two about that.

Anton and Andrea Huber reported to the EU Agriculture Commissioner about all kinds of specifications and requirements and also about the question hanging over their heads like the sword of Damocles, how agriculture will generally continue.

All of this, added trainee Laura Stegemann, who herself comes from a farm, makes it difficult for the next generation to decide whether to stay in agriculture or give it up.

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Wojciechowski wanted to know whether they had received EU funding for their investments in the past few years with the construction of the farm shop.

“No, we did everything ourselves,” Andrea and Anton Huber answer.

Welcome to the practice.

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