Overview
- During an Oct. 7 visit near Werder an der Havel, Scholz toured a site where water buffalo grazing is used to maintain wet peatland.
- Brandenburg agriculture minister Hanka Mittelstädt accompanied the former chancellor on the visit.
- The program included stops at a Niedermoor area near Plessow and a separate sheep-grazing project at the Weinberg Swillus.
- The Brandenburg agriculture ministry says the Werder initiative is one of eight regional cooperatives that receive public funding.
- Officials described the cooperatives as a way for farms to implement nature and climate measures across property lines, with Mittelstädt calling the funding an institutional basis for over-farm conservation.