Cows that give more milk and live longer – this has been paid to this in the past few decades when breeding cattle in Austria. With success: This means that fewer cattle are used and so the greenhouse gas emissions of milk production could be reduced around a third. Now the cattle breeding Austria, the advocacy representative of the approximately 21,000 cattle breeding companies, goes one step further: With the “Breed4Green” project, for example, the breeding of the methane emissions of the cattle can also be examined. The companies can also help to improve sustainability in the cattle economy. The Kloibhofer family in the Kloibhofer family in Pabneukirchen in Upper Austria is already using the new digital tool “Neu.Rind”. This should help to estimate how sustainability is at your own farm and where there is still room for improvement. And finally, the dairies are also required, for example through environmentally friendly packaging and short transport routes, as a visit to Berglandmilch in Aschbach in Lower Austria shows.
More topics from “Land and People” on June 28:
Wine blossom in the vineyard
The filigree inflorescences of the vines are part of research at the Klosterneuburg wine and fruit building school, because they are particularly susceptible to mildew and other fungal diseases. In addition, the flower and wine are of great importance for the region’s culture of this year.
Young pig baconian with a mission
The young farmer Julia Breitwieser, together with her parents, runs a pig fattening and agriculture in Steinhaus near Wels in Upper Austria. In addition, she studies and as an agarscout she shows interested people agriculture in all its facets.
Cheese directly from the Alm
In the middle of the Karwendel nature reserve, in the Tyrolean Almdorf, spicy mountain cheese is produced. More than 200 dairy cows spend every summer in the remote valley, which can only be reached from Bavaria on the road path.
Austria’s first Earthship House
We show a house with closed energy and supply cycles in Carinthia in Carinthia, built from natural or recycled materials. The agricultural areas around the former farmhouse are managed with permaculture.
Editor: Mag. Sabine Daxberger-Edenhofer
ORF Lower Austria
Mag. Sofia Negosazivic
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