- serves food and livelihood security
- promotes agro-biodiversity
- preserves local and traditional knowledge
- based on traditional social structures (culture and value systems)
- shows typical landscape structures
Opportunities through World Heritage listing
The program offers the opportunity to highlight valuable but under-pressured traditional elements of agriculture, to promote them, to generate additional revenue on the market and thereby make a contribution to conservation.
Inclusion in the world cultural heritage also offers the opportunity to position small-scale agricultural production processes and the resulting cultural landscape internationally as positive examples.
Hay milk - unique and valuable
On March 9, 2024, the award for the traditional hay milk industry was presented as part of the hay milk gala in Salzburg. Over 800 people - many farmers, representatives from business, politics, consulting and research - attended the celebration. The inclusion of our hay milk farm in the world cultural heritage was the first in the German-speaking area and is also a sign of the special appreciation for the work of the farmers on their farms and for the ARGE Heumilch under chairman Karl Neuhofer . The ARGE Heumilch brings together around 7,000 hay milk farmers and over 70 processors (dairies, cheese dairies, dairies) and marketers . It is number 1 in the production and marketing of hay milk in Europe. We congratulate the chairman Karl Neuhofer and the managing director Christiane Mösl on their inclusion in the world cultural heritage!
Collaboration that continues
The ARGE Heumilch and the HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein have been working closely together for years. In the technical part of the Heugala in Salzburg, for example, Ing. Reinhard Resch and Dr. Georg Terler presented current results from the hay project and from a calf hay feeding trial.
