Walter Heidl, head of the Bavarian farmers ‘ Association, sees his profession, by the people, the diversity of species, desire to do injustice to the pillory.
Interview of Sebastian Beck and Christian Sebald
SZ: Mr Heidl, you will manage the pigs on a farm, with 200 mast, 60 breeding sows and 40 hectares of arable land. What do you do for biodiversity?
Walter Heidl: I am participating in Agri-environment schemes, for example, I have a waters edge strip, a strip of green land between arable and forest, and since 2011, blooming frame around my corn fields. I was the environment at that time President of the farmers Association. The first flowering frame in Bavaria has grown on my field.
As a farmer you are much in nature, because of the loss of Species …
