Landwirtschaft: Sieben Jahre Arbeit, kein einziges Gehalt – „Mein Job ist ein teures Hobby“
Schweinepest in Spanien, Lieferstopp nach China, ein Kilopreis von nur 1,45 Euro – immer mehr Schweinehalter geben auf. Annika Thier will den Hof ihres Vaters trotzdem übernehmen. Warum?
Annika Thier, a 28-year-old from Rosenberg, Baden-Württemberg, spends her days working on her father's farm, caring for 3,800 pigs on 120 hectares of land. She describes her job as one that feels like cleaning hotel beds for new guests, as she tends to the pigs. At 14:30, a truck arrives to deliver new piglets to the stables, but there's no time to waste.
Thier, with her blonde hair and neat eye liner, carries plastic containers and loads straw into metal containers at the stall doors. She has been working on this farm for seven years, yet she has never received a single salary, never taken a vacation, and continues to work in the Landesanstalt for Swine Breeding in nearby Boxberg during the day as her farm alone cannot sustain her financially. Despite this, Thier is determined to take over the farm from her father.
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