Summary of newspapers of the previous day –24.2.2011

Lesy ČR: successful year 2010. Historically best operating results: 3.13 billion

Lesy ČR really economically prospered in 2010. According to the most actual, not yet audited data, Lesy ČR achieved a record operating results (OR) in the height of 3.13 billion crowns in 2010, in its whole history since 1992. That despite the fact that the enterprise had to cope with many unfavourable circumstances like floods and climatic influences throughout the year. Flood and wind calamity damages reached almost 1 billion crowns.

Piggeries in South Moravia will be closed, farms do not pay off to farmers

Expensive feed and low buy-out prices of pig meat liquidate pig farms in South Moravia. Some farms disappear already now in the region, other breeders consider this seriously. With liquidation of old piggeries many local employees lost their job. “We breed pigs on two farms and one of them will be closed. A farm in Šebetov will run only by this year end”, a director of Agropodnik in Skalice nad Svitavou, Jan Jurásek says.

In SVÚ Praha they recognize not only Equine infectious anemia

The most of which animals a keen observer can see on a short excursion around big towns, especially Prague? Now, except flock of siskins and ravens it will be horses. Until recently farm animals, now rather hobby ones. And, with increasing number of bred horses, with trading with them and travelling also requirement for veterinary care increase, last but not least also for laboratory diagnostics of possible diseases.

Intense rise in prices for lease of agricultural land

Prices of lease of agricultural land in the east Germany have tripled throughout the recent years. It results from a report Report München. A boom of large bio-gas facilities endangers an existence of family farms. Large investors have secured wide areas of arable land to obtain a sufficient amount of corn for profitable bio-engineering production. A political journal ARD report München stated it with reference to a study of Word Wildwide Fund (WWF). Throughout the last three years, the price for lease of land has almost tripled in the east of Germany.