Farmers now have to invest billions

The economy can look forward to further billions in investments in the agricultural sector over the next few years. Farmers will have to invest massively in stables, liquid manure technology and biogas plants in order to achieve animal welfare, environmental and climate protection goals. In the now expired EU financial period from 2014 to 2022, Upper Austria’s farmers made subsidized investments of around 1.5 billion euros. The EU, federal and state governments have contributed 312 million euros in tax money. To start the