Made in Germany | Lithuania - Europe's Biggest Farmer

Siegfried Hofreiter owns 20.000 hectares of farmland making him Europe's biggest farmer. Most of that land is in eastern Germany and Lithuania.

Hofreiter does 28 million euros of business every year and his company is listed on the stock exchange. He's seeking to diversify into producing biogas but agriculture is a risky business even at the best of times when the world's population is growing and when prosperity in developing countries is driving up demand for food. Our reporter travelled to Lithuania to meet Hofreiter at his third farm.

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[AG0525]

Good, i am happy. Germans in Lithuania r really showing us how the job must be done.

Of course everything must be controled, we shouldnt allow monopolism in farming, becouse it could become the big problem.

[MrPotatoesLatkie]

They're only showing one way. There are many ways to farm, many other productive ways that don't require corporate control.

[inferno0020]

Hofreiter needs some workout.

[roswux]

Storas nusipenejes voketis.. Gauna ismokas is Lietuvos ir is Viokietpalaikiu.. Lengva ir ukininkaut..

[amartinjoe]

3:41 "And because the Germans always pay on time"

damn right!!

[bbphnix]

holy shit.....no wonder Germany as tiny as it is is almost as economically developed as the US..... look at them! they've got business for blood.....I like them!

[ThirdRomeAquilo]

@MrPotatoesLatkie like?

[mijlungu]

The biggest farm is in Romania and the guy has around 68.000 hectares.I think you should buy more land:)))

[petrass]

eik tu durniau

[husqy250]

The products are getting expensiver, but not for the one who grows it.. Only for the traders/supermarkets. If the E.U. didn't have so much import from Brazil and USA then we didn't need the subsidies.

@AG0525

Well you need the have a large capital to start farming with revenue in eastern Europe isn't it?

[MrPotatoesLatkie]

Do a search on the American Joel Salatin.

I read an article about 10 years ago on Lithuanian agriculture and, how large numbers of Lithuanian farmers wanted to farm, but the government was trying to dissuade them from that, thinking they would be better off doing something else.

It seems they've got their wish.