Most farms in Tyrol mainly produce milk because it is available in the Alps. Ruminants provide food from areas that would otherwise be of no use to us. Other forms of agriculture are rare. The topography certainly allows for alternatives.
In the Tyrolean stables you will mainly find ruminants, and in our fields mainly grass grows. Grassland agriculture with ruminants is a proven system: “In mountain areas it simply makes sense,” explains Michael Traugott, professor at the Research Center for Mountain Agriculture at the University of Innsbruck. You can’t plant corn fields on steep mountain slopes. We humans cannot eat the grass that grows there. “But ruminants can,” Traugott explains.
Source: Krone
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