Pork keeping: full-split floors pans from 2034

The federal government has agreed on a regulation for the full column floors in pig breeding: from mid -2034, they should be banned. As reported, a change in the Animal Welfare Act was decided in 2022 after tough struggles. From 2040, unstructured full column bays without your own lying area are prohibited in pig farming. By this, concrete floors are to be understood by columns. The pigs step into manure channels, and straw is dispensed with. According to a lawsuit by the Burgenland state government, this amendment was overturned by the Constitutional Court. The deadline was too long, it was argued. A new transition period had to be presented by June 1st, otherwise the ban would have come into force with immediate effect. There had been great uncertainty among the domestic farmers in recent months, investments had failed to do so. The Federal Government may have agreed on a shortened transition period until June 1, 2034.

From 2029 there should also be initial improvements: employment material such as strandhols should come as well as lower stocking density: that means 0.8 instead of 0.7 square meters of space per bold -rifel -in mast pig. For new buildings, the full column ban has been in effect since 2023, companies that have been converted in the old system since 2018 have now been added to 16 years for adaptation.

“Upper Austria is the number of pig farms with around 5000 pig counters and a contribution to the level of self-care level of 40 percent. Now there is finally clarity and planning security for our farmers,” said Upper Austria’s agricultural councilor Michaela Langer-Weninger. The pig farmers in Upper Austria have waived major investments in the past few months, which also showed the data from the investment funding. If no new transition solution had been found for the full column farming, this would have meant the immediate end of the full column husbandry from June 2025: “For many of our pig farmers Upper Austria, this would have been a disaster. That would also mean the end of self-sufficiency. The pig branches generate a production value of 410 million euros annually. From regional pig production.

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