Rudi Schmid

Through various biodiversity areas - including 30-year-old fallow areas - Rudi Schmid creates diverse areas for the preservation of plant and animal diversity in the otherwise intensively farmed arable landscape. Rudi Schmid uses his extensive botanical knowledge to test a wide range of care and cultivation measures and to observe their effects on biodiversity. He lives the compatibility of economic efficiency and biodiversity conservation through and through on his farm. Above all, he wants to convey to his professional colleagues that a company can certainly operate economically, even if biodiversity is important to him. The success of his management method is reflected in the occurrence of rare species, such as the small insect Tessellana veyseli, which was able to establish itself on his land thanks to his targeted efforts to cover its habitat requirements. His business has already served as an excursion location for a variety of events on the subject of biodiversity in the agricultural landscape.