As of: March 28, 2024, 5:01 p.m
By: Katrin Hager
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A fascination for the guests from the Emerald Isle: The Irish agricultural advisors were enthusiastic about the brightly colored snack eggs that Michael Häsch offered them to eat at his company. © private
An excursion took agricultural consultants from Ireland to the region. A look outside the box for all sides.
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- cattle grazing on lush green pastures: this is what the Irish island has in common with the Oberland. A delegation of agricultural consultants from Ireland went on an information trip to the Office for Food, Agriculture and Forestry (AELF) in Holzkirchen to find out about local grassland farming and exchanged views on similarities and differences with their Bavarian colleagues. The Bavarian agricultural administration organized the look beyond the horizon.
You can eat Easter eggs straight away
In addition to presenting the tasks and structure of the AELF, two companies were visited. At the Häsch family's Bertenbauer business in Dietramszell, the guests were not only fascinated by the processing of the chicken eggs and the marketing structures, the AELF reports. But also about the fact that you could eat the brightly colored eggs that Michael Häsch offered straight away. They expected the eggs to be raw. Although the custom of dyeing eggs is also known in Ireland, it is usually only done by small children. Boiled eggs for snacks are also not common there.
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No hay milk on the Emerald Isle
Afterwards, the guests discovered something at the Hofgut Bernried dairy farm on Lake Starnberg that is not common in Ireland: hay milk. Operations manager Adelheid Castell explained the processes and advantages of feeding the grass not as pasture in the summer, but as gently dried hay all year round. Due to the continuous rainfall in Ireland, a hay harvest on such a scale would only be possible with a lot of energy for drying, explained the Irish agricultural consultants. Everyone found it enriching to see the bigger picture together.