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to an in depth look, it's karen who use event analyzed by x. the i'm critical thinking is this is the weekdays on dw, the peter to mind. it's a dairy farmer he puts in 7 days a week on the family farm. every year, thousands of germany's farmers give up. the jobs simply doesn't pay any more to time on how to get older and complete your training. you wonder who is this the right thing? do i want to do this for the long haul? let's do stuff online. and then comes the challenge of finding a spouse willing to share this hard life. to marry or quit, what are the prospects available for gary farmer peter to him on the
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they are stressed in the barn. a cow is about to give birth, but something's wrong about the future. i hear you. can you hear me? yeah, i can. yes, i hear you to the calling us on top of the barn. now things have to move. the caliph isn't a breach position in the room. the peter and his father, antonia's to mind, have attended to lots of difficult birds. so that's been, that's kind of look, that's when the time comes, i backwards, the umbilical cord my here with the head and body still inside and the comp supplicate desktop. yes, i did. some of this trying to find that's come to it's rare. but when it happens,
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it's important to act fast and archive is mostly tough by themselves. thank goodness and carolina minutes after the birth, the cow and her newborn calf are doing well. they are 2 of some, 200 animals on the 2 men farm in eastern west. finally as hooks through districts at 90 hector's, with around 120 dairy cows and an annual turnover of about 600000 euros. it's a typical family farm during the good years that makes about $100000.00 euros and profit, most of which comes from e. u in german states subsidies. peter trained to be a farmer. he's the 5th generation of his family to work the land. and he hopes he won't be the last. there might have to decide if you think ahead, a goal is to have the operation over to the next generation even done it. so it's important to find a partner to have children with then to fit in with them and then can not. he's been searching the area villages and on the internet. but so far,
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no luck. and little wonder, considering what a normal day on the farm is like. it isn't what model have we started at 530 this morning, so we get the livestock bed on time and gets for it. i don't know when will be quitting, probably around 10 or 11. we can see exactly right now. not every work day is that long. they can only work outside and fair weather. most of the money is made from milk. a little extra comes from growing wheat. is it worth all the hard work? peter and his father worked out that the average about 13 year olds in our net income for the whole final system. would that be enough for a future farmer's wife? in 1970 germany had over 1000000 farmers. since then over $34.00, it's deb hung up their overalls. peter can understand that, especially after slaving away for days alone can advertise the boy. i helped types of loans closed back. then i knew i wanted to become
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a farmer to to i always wanted to do. my father and grandfather had done that for me. like, oh, apartment 5. as you get older and complete your training, you wonder and yet is this the right thing to do? i want to do this for the long haul, know this stuff. i just wish to go next e stuff though, on the all the while the demands on the farmers keep on growing. for instance, when animals have health problems. before i receive off the coast got milk fever i knew from yesterday the co had her fist caused by may a problem. dairy cattle have is not producing enough calcium in the initial stages, especially in older codes. that's a problem. and so we gave her a little policy of injection. this is a metabolic disorder. the cow doesn't have the strength to stand up her poles, this fading. yes, code symposium has to go into a vein or an archery, and that's what i'm looking for it. oh, okay, so what we hit without treatment in the worst case is milk fever can end in the
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animals stuff. at one time, it was up to a veterinarian to treated dairy. farmers have been taking on more and more of their tasks. the same applies to the artificial insemination of cows to induce pregnancy . it's performed at this farm about $150.00 times a year. that's called a family. a sperm is deep frozen. we have to sort of here tone, so it can then take effect in sight because, you know, i was on a vehicle consultant gun this also used to be done by a veterinarian that costs money. so now peter's father takes on the task slaves depositing the seaman and now you terrain horn to them, right or left. it doesn't really matter. and quincy pig on everything has to be recorded every insemination, every birth of a calf, every medication administered. and whether or not fertilizer has been applied applications for you. agriculture. all subsidies are several pages long,
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multiple copies of reports on environmental and animal welfare standards. go to local, federal and you authorities so good. so the co insemination went fine. so we did that down. you know, they spend about one hour on paper work every day. german farmers have been complaining about the red tape for years. it leaves them less time to work with a live stock, which is what gives peter to mind so much satisfaction. when for instance, he shows a calf how to stucco that cooper does it for the whole nature means that this is survive. when does heist o in time? mean, some of the animals don't make it because for instance, and if they don't find the teach right away and they die sky, i'm done. so since we're keeping an eye of the eyes on them, i get them all the opportunity to learn it from the i see some stuff is early on. it's the newborn calf is one example. it's somewhat less
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satisfying, but just as important to clean out the bar and the crew van mark always gets paid in the morning and have enough food for 24 hours before we put today, we give the feeding table a good sweetie to make sure it's thoroughly clean and solved by if you're the remaining folder, a way to make room for the fresh feed. when i get online north carol gives around 30 leaders of milk for day. so the farm produces 323500 leaders of milk daily. yeah, how about all the robot notes because the milk is collected here until the coast be no dry, then it's pump to pass through the filter here and on into the tank dining and talking to you. it's cool to fortunately celsius and the theory picked it up every to the i talked with funding low. can i afford the cows have to learn to hit the milking unit regularly. it's harder for psychos, the farmers tried to calm them down. finest. yeah,
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you're fine cuz i really find one and so good until you see me. oh wow. sure. it'll be all right. i see it. so now an automated milking system costs over $150000.00 euros. not only does it cut down on labor, it also helps to monitor the cows health using sensors. that goal support and it's all because we're a color. it tells me straight up the code that i'm shooting it up. i mean, if she's had enough exercise or not to be, then i can give the animals the not a problem here and in an emergency, for instance, one could also call them as an area myself. and normally the cows do quite well for a few years. the 2 months farm had been in organic one observing very strict requirements on the use of chemicals. the new conditions demand a lot from the whole family. so that's good for me. see what literally works for me . no, because i can do it with my father, and if i'd had to meet the transition on my own, i mean, it would have been too much for people,
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but we have so much to be learned and pay attention to the i need of often listening for example, what goes into this style ej to be fed to the livestock on this farm. it's a mixture of grass, clover, corn, grain and father being meal. 6 tons of it every day. storing this silage through this summer is an art. it has to be concentrated. so it won't mode impact air tight so rainwater won't contaminated and then a catalogue of legal restrictions on silage has to be observed for the protection of the environment and the livestock. it's one thing to produce organic milk, another to sell it. lots of customers want organic milk and the other one has to buy it. it costs a bit more. we notice that's a problem. people don't like to spend the money for it. like most german farmers, the 10 months have conservative values on sunday antonius,
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to mine attends catholic mass and a nearby town. the father peter, you'll see a ministers to the congregation. he used to work as a student pastor, endorsement. he's these faith in nature as closely intertwined down to doc. they celebrate thanksgiving very differently here than in the city dot. they are, it's always very present to them. so level of off and i'm more along the lines of solidarity with the poor and so on. eat, with an ottoman on some items. i was all in welling. good picture of a you sense? very direct by. wow. i live from this all. but now back to the farm. the 2 months have some news in advance training course. peter met 26 year old elizabeth spine, the from bavaria. she also grew up on a farm and she studied the ground to me. she and peter have decided to move in together. live how color wasn't an easy decision actual, especially since i'll be giving up quite to los at home. have thought i've built up
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the funds so much the past few years. and of course my parents or grandparents and siblings will be far away. not just around the corner, there is few 100 kilometers away no. later. but all that was outweighed by the dream of building a life together and independently of peter's parents with whom they're also living for now. yeah, as the 1st of all, we'll have to give them face a company to make of us and get everything into their place. so there's lots of room for ideas and goodness. i'm not moving into an already finished department. and then we both really want children. and we'll probably get started on that sometime next year. i showed him next. we also got some good. yep. yep. peter is taking over the farms management until now he and his father made all the decisions together in the future. elizabeth will also have a stay in matters squire is not to be totally looking forward to it please. i'm over join about which of course we'll have to see how things settle in here. that's
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essentially the only thing together is one aspect and working together on the farm is another good. mine's on the all biting off. i move as we don't yet have a clear idea of how does that all work out in the long run my phone. so near peter to mind is used to uncertainty fluctuating milk prices, cattle giving birth, and following ill changeable weather and bureaucracy. but now he's looking forward to a whole new life on the farm. with elizabeth at his side, the, it's time for vision raised for
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