District office training course for agricultural specialists: 9 female and 19 male specialists receive their certificates

"Sound agricultural and business management expertise is the key to successful farm management. Of course, this also applies to part-time farming," said Luise Pachaly, Head of the Agriculture Department at the Ludwigsburg District Office, at the certificate ceremony. The 28 participants in the Ludwigsburg course have successfully put this insight into practice. In addition to their main job outside of agriculture, they all work on their own farm or work in agriculture and also attended the further training course at the district office from the end of October 2023 to the end of March 2025.

The graduates of 2025 not only come from the Ludwigsburg district, but also partly from neighboring districts or have their "main job" in the Ludwigsburg/Stuttgart area and the farm a little further away. Four of the students achieved an overall grade of "very good": Betina Freitag (1.03), Deborah Schmid (1.11), Bernd Fritz (1.26) and Marcus Kurrle (1.43). All four received a book prize.

The final exam was passed:

Next course for part-time farming starts in October 2026

The training course at the Department of Agriculture took place over two winters and one summer. The additional technical college qualification comprised a total of 600 teaching hours, most of which were completed in the evenings and at weekends. The focus was on environmentally friendly plant production, animal welfare and business management, ranging from business management to legal issues and agricultural policy. The participants, who in addition to their non-agricultural vocational training also have experience from a family farm or already run a part-time agricultural business themselves, have been equipped with the necessary basic technical knowledge through the course. In addition to theory, the course also included practical days in the summer and a two-week training course on animal husbandry at the state institute in Aulendorf or Boxberg.

The next course for part-time farmers starts in October 2026. Information on this is available from the Ludwigsburg District Office, Agriculture Department, landwirtschaft[at]landkreis-ludwigsburg.de. The contact person is Martin Walter, tel. 07141 144-44916.