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Christoph Kistner and Uschi Braun have been breeding ostriches for 25 years and want to hand over the farm in order to retire. The Fischer family would be the ideal successors. But the handover threatens to fail due to high rent demands from the municipality of Rülzheim. You can find even more videos in the ARD media library https://www.ardmediathek.de/dokus Many farms in southern Germany are desperately looking for successors. But handovers repeatedly fail. In recent years, SWR television has accompanied many farm owners. In Rülzheim in the Palatinate, Christoph Kistner and Uschi Braun are currently urgently looking for a farmer to take over their ostrich breeding. The two are of retirement age. Mareike and Jürgen Fischer from near Freiburg would be the ideal successors. They breed rare chicken breeds and want to supplement this with ostrich breeding and organic farming. They would like to take over the farm with their five children, but the ownership situation of the ostrich farm is difficult. The land is only leased. It belongs to the municipality of Rülzheim and they have high rent demands for the management of the land. Have the Willmann nursery in Ingersheim or the Fuchs winery in Flörsheim-Dalsheim already arranged the succession? Or are the hurdles simply too high? This SWR documentary has the original title: Farmer wanted! Animal farm on the verge of collapse, broadcast date: March 8, 2023. #swrdoku #swr All statements and facts correspond to the status at the time and have not been updated since then. Subscribe to the channel: / swrdoku You can find more documentaries on our channel or in the ARD Mediathek at https://www.ardmediathek.de/dokus