This is a wonderful story of solidarité, learning, education, animal husbandry, Self- taught Veterinary skills, Hard, Hard Work, and finally partnership, growing into a loving relationship to build a new family. It is very similar how Dairy Farms work here in the States. I found this story to be frought with financial struggles, yet HOPE in the future for the young couple. It's quite sad, yet inspiring, seeing how small family farms are only a Quarter of what they used to be. Seems to be the same everywhere, how Big Corporate Agriculture has eaten into the family tradition of Farming. Without Gov't Subsidies, there will be no more Family Farmers! Go Solidarité and go Co-op Foods!
I don't watch mainstream here in the US but always look in on DW, BBC, and France 24 each day. Its features like this one that I really like. I grew up in a dairy here in the US in California in the 50s. Of course it's become more 'modernized' and different and - as so, so much here in the US commercialized huge outfits, but what we here in the US call 'homespun' stories is appealing to me. I wish there were more on DW, BBC, and France 24 but, hardy 'farm'. This video shows far more than what you'd watch here in the US. More 'homespun' stories on Germany and everyday Germans as they go on about their lives please!
90 hectares, that seems so small and unsustainable, but then I live in Australia and yet I appreciate their pain as well as here too most "family" owned dairy farms, no matter how large, are succumbing to international corporations, often Chinese owned. So sadly this is a world wide problem. The rich get richer, the people who actually produce the food that feed the rich get poorer. And young people just have to leave the land to find work in cities. It's so bloody messed up!
in west europe the land is too expensive and devided over centuries in small patches. But in eastern europe things like you describe happen. what is overly unfair is that this big companies make good profits, but still optimize their land for the EU money (they don’t need). And then they dictate the price
Yep and the dairy farmers in NZ face another problem, the pollution of the waterways, cow faeces, methane etc. run offs. Jeez, I love dairy products and some farmers and governments(insert what they say and what they do) in many countries are trying to address with methane inhibiting grasses.
the problem in many european countries is that the land is strongly devided on many families over centuries and many/ most are too small to make seriously money. The land is also too expensive to have a chance to expand…It’s systematic and for example I know many near VW worked their main job and the small family farm was just side business done in the family also for traditional reasons.
@@Hochspitz Really? There’s more pollution from our towns and cities in New Zealand than any dairy farm. We have pretty strict rules on what we can do and not do.
I don’t know what German or EU regulations are, but I wonder why farmers don’t co-op and sell direct to consumers - skip the wholesaler and grocery store. Every time the product exchanges hands, a margin is applied so they can make a profit, so by the time it reaches the consumer it costs considerably more than if they purchased it directly from the farmer. Farmers could charge a little more while still reducing cost to the consumer.
Sounds good in theory, but most consumers want to buy their milk at the grocery store. Imagine if you had to buy your milk/bread/meat/fruits/vegetables at different places.
Many supermarkets have changed and are selling many products (seasonal fruit, vegetables) from the region. Milk is more difficult, as it is also about shelf life. There are also weekly markets or farm shops where farmers sell directly to customers, but this involves additional effort.
I really admire farmers who persist in producing organic products, whether milk, meat or vegetables as it is more difficult and expensive for the farmers, which should not be the case, but it is. When I grew up, everything was organic and cheap to produce, but thi industry has change so much to encourage and reward non organic farming.
Ok, guys, you haven't heard of cheese or yogurt? People have kept animals like cows and goats for their milk for I don't know how long. Seriously? You guys are silly!
As a kid I grew up in northern Wisconsin. At that time - 70 years ago - there were probably more Holsteins than humans. Everywhere you looked or drove there were family farms. Every farm had a herd of 40+ dairy cows along with fields of corn, wheat, oats or soybeans. That's gone now as the commercial dairies have taken over milk production. The former pastures are now used to grow crops and all you see in the way of cattle are small herds of beef cattle. No dairy cows anywhere.
@DoubleDogDare54 family farm with herd of 40+ Holsteins and monocrops like corn wheat etc was also commercial. you are talking as if it was something good. no, it wasn't either.
@@sachinsgiri The difference being the family farms were family owned businesses that often supported multiple generations of the family and were kept in the family from generation to generation. The cows were milked twice a day and spent the rest of their lives out grazing in pastures in good weather or in yards in bad weather. Nothing like the huge really commercial businesses with hundreds, even thousands, of dairy cattle that never get exposed to direct sunlight or graze green grass and just eat various silage mixtures all year round. The family farms were Mom and Pop businesses where as the huge commercial dairies now are like Walmart or Amazon. The local dairies have all shut down now and there are no more milk trucks picking up milk from small farmers. That's all gone. It's a shame, but that's how it is.
Alas, this 78 year old Californian understands ... and laments with you .. with the commercialization of 'farms'. I grew up in the 50s in the San Joaquin Valley, home to many Portuguese who came from the Azores and set up farms, dairies. They're mostly gone and LA and Bay Area moguls have taken over. I took a road trip about 30+ years ago with a friend who grew up in Florence. Beautiful rural country Wisconsin. Felt nostalgic for me.
It's a German problem. Many Polish farmers live prosperously, making a net ~7k eur equivalent per month. Germans should pay more for produce so that their farmers earn more, not pay 5x for natural gas to the US because they allowed Ukraine to sabotage their pipeline. The choice is simple.
@@knighthood91oh buddy, all we feed our livestocks would cause a ill tummy for us humans. Sheep and cows eat grass. We give a some oats when they are near to giving birth and when they start to lactate during winter but other than that they eat hay and graze pastures.
Farmers if you want to thrive you must produce less, let the world go hungry, join in an association like OPEP with quotas, we work 7 days a week, 10 hours day for pennies with no weekends, with no holidays... We must control the world food production, control prices let the world go hungy it's the only way to increase our profits. I'm sure this will happen sooner or later will not be the farmers doing it but the corporations that are buying land everywhere, this corporation will put the humanity in stress and theere will be food only for who has money to buy it.
Hello everyone, my name is Mark from Ghana. I'm reaching out in the hopes that someone can assist me in finding a farm worker or animal keeper job. I have a strong educational background in animal health and production, with knowledge in animal welfare, nutrition, breeding, and healthcare. I've also gained experience in animal husbandry practices on pig, poultry, and cattle farms. Additionally, I have some experience in tractor operation and maintenance. I'm eager to serve, learn, and develop myself in a new environment. If anyone knows of any job opportunities or can offer guidance on how to get started, I would be forever grateful. Thank you for taking the time to read my comment. I look forward to hearing from you.
nobody is talking about that we don't need to sacrifice and kill these lovely animals anymore. Milkproduction is destroying our environment and totally unnecessary to consume. German health institute DGE is telling us that we can have more healthy benefits with a plant based diet. Oat milk don't kill, is more healthy for us, without hormones for cows 😅
Oh deary me! Who owns the farms growing oats/soya/almond/ whatever for milk substitute? How are they creating and preserving the bio-diversity within the soil using chemical fertilizers and pesticides?
@@mautoban66 From whence does plant milk come and how is it produced? Who owns the farms, what kind of fertilizers are used and pest control measures. Which mega companies advertise hugely for their whichever plant based milk?
Did they tell you that without animals you will have no organic plants. All they will get would be grown on artificial manure and pesticides. Educate yourself!
@@Hochspitz There is milk in plants. You can call it milk for the Rest of your life it will never be milk. The other points i totally agree. Plant based diet is a Slave diet to keep it short.
100 years ago, in the 1920s, annual meat consumption in Germany was around 20-25 kg per capita. Today (as of 2023/2024), average per capita meat consumption in Germany is around 52 kg per year, an increase of 131%. We need to eat less meat, not more.
For the very first time (watching DW last 5 years) I've seen first positive story. Good luck to Peter and Elisabeth
I am happy for Peter at the end, his story is inspiring ( get used to uncertainty is not an easy task )
This is a wonderful story of solidarité, learning, education, animal husbandry, Self- taught Veterinary skills, Hard, Hard Work, and finally partnership, growing into a loving relationship to build a new family. It is very similar how Dairy Farms work here in the States. I found this story to be frought with financial struggles, yet HOPE in the future for the young couple.
It's quite sad, yet inspiring, seeing how small family farms are only a Quarter of what they used to be. Seems to be the same everywhere, how Big Corporate Agriculture has eaten into the family tradition of Farming. Without Gov't Subsidies, there will be no more Family Farmers! Go Solidarité and go Co-op Foods!
Agree 👍🏼
Wish them all the best.
I don't watch mainstream here in the US but always look in on DW, BBC, and France 24 each day. Its features like this one that I really like. I grew up in a dairy here in the US in California in the 50s. Of course it's become more 'modernized' and different and - as so, so much here in the US commercialized huge outfits, but what we here in the US call 'homespun' stories is appealing to me. I wish there were more on DW, BBC, and France 24 but, hardy 'farm'. This video shows far more than what you'd watch here in the US. More 'homespun' stories on Germany and everyday Germans as they go on about their lives please!
EU is helping the big c00perate to reduce "farmer" .
consolidation will continue ...
90 hectares, that seems so small and unsustainable, but then I live in Australia and yet I appreciate their pain as well as here too most "family" owned dairy farms, no matter how large, are succumbing to international corporations, often Chinese owned. So sadly this is a world wide problem. The rich get richer, the people who actually produce the food that feed the rich get poorer.
And young people just have to leave the land to find work in cities. It's so bloody messed up!
in west europe the land is too expensive and devided over centuries in small patches. But in eastern europe things like you describe happen. what is overly unfair is that this big companies make good profits, but still optimize their land for the EU money (they don’t need). And then they dictate the price
Farmers in New Zealand do not get subsidies. If they can not make a farm work they get out of the business. I have a nephew who milks about 5000 cows.
Yep and the dairy farmers in NZ face another problem, the pollution of the waterways, cow faeces, methane etc. run offs. Jeez, I love dairy products and some farmers and governments(insert what they say and what they do) in many countries are trying to address with methane inhibiting grasses.
🤔 alone?
the problem in many european countries is that the land is strongly devided on many families over centuries and many/ most are too small to make seriously money. The land is also too expensive to have a chance to expand…It’s systematic and for example I know many near VW worked their main job and the small family farm was just side business done in the family also for traditional reasons.
@@Hochspitz Really? There’s more pollution from our towns and cities in New Zealand than any dairy farm. We have pretty strict rules on what we can do and not do.
I don’t know what German or EU regulations are, but I wonder why farmers don’t co-op and sell direct to consumers - skip the wholesaler and grocery store. Every time the product exchanges hands, a margin is applied so they can make a profit, so by the time it reaches the consumer it costs considerably more than if they purchased it directly from the farmer. Farmers could charge a little more while still reducing cost to the consumer.
Sounds good in theory, but most consumers want to buy their milk at the grocery store. Imagine if you had to buy your milk/bread/meat/fruits/vegetables at different places.
Many supermarkets have changed and are selling many products (seasonal fruit, vegetables) from the region. Milk is more difficult, as it is also about shelf life. There are also weekly markets or farm shops where farmers sell directly to customers, but this involves additional effort.
The lottery of finding a spouse 🤷♂️. If you don’t love the work AND find it challenging as a young person, the joy becomes a burden.
Good documentary..😊
Wonderful video. That's why we love DW.
Much respect to farmers….
I really admire farmers who persist in producing organic products, whether milk, meat or vegetables as it is more difficult and expensive for the farmers, which should not be the case, but it is. When I grew up, everything was organic and cheap to produce, but thi industry has change so much to encourage and reward non organic farming.
I’m so happy to hear that Peter have met a girl and will build a family 😊❤❤❤❤❤❤Congratulations!!!
Organic dairies are precious.
Why don't governments make it easier to produce food? Who doesn't need food?
Animals are no food.
Animals are not food
Because some people in the Background so not want it.
We need less animals - not more.
Also raising animals for food in most cases uses up more food than it produces.
Ok, guys, you haven't heard of cheese or yogurt?
People have kept animals like cows and goats for their milk for I don't know how long.
Seriously? You guys are silly!
In other wards he doesn’t earn any money at all. This is bad
The government needs to pay them a living wage.
As a kid I grew up in northern Wisconsin. At that time - 70 years ago - there were probably more Holsteins than humans. Everywhere you looked or drove there were family farms. Every farm had a herd of 40+ dairy cows along with fields of corn, wheat, oats or soybeans. That's gone now as the commercial dairies have taken over milk production. The former pastures are now used to grow crops and all you see in the way of cattle are small herds of beef cattle. No dairy cows anywhere.
@DoubleDogDare54 family farm with herd of 40+ Holsteins and monocrops like corn wheat etc was also commercial. you are talking as if it was something good. no, it wasn't either.
@@sachinsgiri The difference being the family farms were family owned businesses that often supported multiple generations of the family and were kept in the family from generation to generation. The cows were milked twice a day and spent the rest of their lives out grazing in pastures in good weather or in yards in bad weather. Nothing like the huge really commercial businesses with hundreds, even thousands, of dairy cattle that never get exposed to direct sunlight or graze green grass and just eat various silage mixtures all year round. The family farms were Mom and Pop businesses where as the huge commercial dairies now are like Walmart or Amazon. The local dairies have all shut down now and there are no more milk trucks picking up milk from small farmers. That's all gone. It's a shame, but that's how it is.
Alas, this 78 year old Californian understands ... and laments with you .. with the commercialization of 'farms'. I grew up in the 50s in the San Joaquin Valley, home to many Portuguese who came from the Azores and set up farms, dairies. They're mostly gone and LA and Bay Area moguls have taken over. I took a road trip about 30+ years ago with a friend who grew up in Florence. Beautiful rural country Wisconsin. Felt nostalgic for me.
In Britain many farmers were denied subsidies, rules and regulations are a nightmare and costs a fortune.
Good job guys and also God bless, thank you, 👍
It's a German problem. Many Polish farmers live prosperously, making a net ~7k eur equivalent per month. Germans should pay more for produce so that their farmers earn more, not pay 5x for natural gas to the US because they allowed Ukraine to sabotage their pipeline. The choice is simple.
Germany failing little by little. When farming stops human survival becomes a deep struggle.
@@beckyumphrey2626 Oh no... what am I going to eat when we stop wasting our food by feeding it to animals? 🙃
@@knighthood91oh buddy, all we feed our livestocks would cause a ill tummy for us humans. Sheep and cows eat grass. We give a some oats when they are near to giving birth and when they start to lactate during winter but other than that they eat hay and graze pastures.
Countries different but farmers are same all world. Good luck young men
Sad to see that moving in with the girl means bye bye to his father and mother. 😢
Today one of my cow died 😢
Cooperatives are the way out
I’m also doing same on my farm in panjab India
Lovely Elizabeth.
Looks like farming will be ending. Lost 75% of farm labour.
Crisis, huh.
😢
Work permit provided
Farmers if you want to thrive you must produce less, let the world go hungry, join in an association like OPEP with quotas, we work 7 days a week, 10 hours day for pennies with no weekends, with no holidays... We must control the world food production, control prices let the world go hungy it's the only way to increase our profits. I'm sure this will happen sooner or later will not be the farmers doing it but the corporations that are buying land everywhere, this corporation will put the humanity in stress and theere will be food only for who has money to buy it.
I love this
These are the Germans at the core...not Berlin or Düsseldorf ... Their connection to nature, directness, even frugality.... hahaha 😅
Middle man makes to much money
1:10 yum
lovely cows
Hello everyone, my name is Mark from Ghana. I'm reaching out in the hopes that someone can assist me in finding a farm worker or animal keeper job. I have a strong educational background in animal health and production, with knowledge in animal welfare, nutrition, breeding, and healthcare. I've also gained experience in animal husbandry practices on pig, poultry, and cattle farms. Additionally, I have some experience in tractor operation and maintenance.
I'm eager to serve, learn, and develop myself in a new environment. If anyone knows of any job opportunities or can offer guidance on how to get started, I would be forever grateful. Thank you for taking the time to read my comment. I look forward to hearing from you.
nobody is talking about that we don't need to sacrifice and kill these lovely animals anymore. Milkproduction is destroying our environment and totally unnecessary to consume. German health institute DGE is telling us that we can have more healthy benefits with a plant based diet. Oat milk don't kill, is more healthy for us, without hormones for cows 😅
There is nothing like plant Milk.
Oh deary me! Who owns the farms growing oats/soya/almond/ whatever for milk substitute? How are they creating and preserving the bio-diversity within the soil using chemical fertilizers and pesticides?
@@mautoban66 From whence does plant milk come and how is it produced? Who owns the farms, what kind of fertilizers are used and pest control measures. Which mega companies advertise hugely for their whichever plant based milk?
Did they tell you that without animals you will have no organic plants. All they will get would be grown on artificial manure and pesticides. Educate yourself!
@@Hochspitz There is milk in plants. You can call it milk for the Rest of your life it will never be milk. The other points i totally agree.
Plant based diet is a Slave diet to keep it short.
ob der enns...
Go vegan!
i am vegan.
Who asked?
@@sloth9669 same question to you
much love ♥️ at least one person understood we don't have to kill animals anymore 🎉
Vegan 13 years
50% vegan
Dairy farming is a sentence.
Look wife from Moldova or Ukraine. This way, women from poorer regions be uplifted and German farmers would get bride. win-win.
Bruh
It's not worth 100k
100 years ago, in the 1920s, annual meat consumption in Germany was around 20-25 kg per capita. Today (as of 2023/2024), average per capita meat consumption in Germany is around 52 kg per year, an increase of 131%. We need to eat less meat, not more.
This was a feature on dairy farms .. not beef cattle outfits.
Some meat packers are adding water to the meat to make it weigh more
Farmers are welcome in Russia
As so many immigrants found out when buying their farm on the steppes of Russia, only to find out, ooops...
To find out what??? I did not understand
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