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Ten years ago, the Schmid family built a new cowshed for 580 cows in Matzslberg in the Neumarkt district of Upper Palatinate - unimaginable at the time! And that was when milk prices were so low. Many people initially asked themselves: is this investment in agriculture, in a mega-barn with better animal welfare, worth it? Even today, the dimensions of the Schmid family farm are impressive: a barn 130 meters long - bigger than a tent at the Oktoberfest! A huge milking carousel and a huge silo with feed supplies. The barn cost 3.5 million euros at the time. Half of the loan is to be paid off next year. The cows are milked three times a day, and milking three times a day increases milk yield: on average, 13,000 liters of milk flow per cow per year. That means 24,000 liters of milk per day. They have bought more agricultural machinery so that they can do a lot of the work themselves again: sowing, spraying and spreading slurry - on around 300 hectares. Today, grass is being ensiled, the cut from 150 hectares of grassland is to go into the silo. And the vet is there: to do a pregnancy check on 20 cows. Despite fluctuating milk prices and rising raw material costs during Corona, everything is fine on the bottom line - say the Schmids. And there is a new project on the horizon: the building in which the cows calve is to be extended. Author: Tobias Hildebrandt From the broadcast on June 28, 2024. More from Unser Land in the ARD Mediathek: https://1.ard.de/unser-land PODCAST TIP! Harvest good, everything good? The big topics in agriculture: https://1.ard.de/ernte-gut-alles-gut Agriculture on BR: https://www.br.de/unserland #stall #landwirtschaft #unserland