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Wolnzach: With video: Hop training in the Hallertau is in full swing

She’s got the hang of it: Roman Carla has been working for many years turning hops on the Widmann family’s farm in Hll.

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If it gets warm, it usually grows by ten centimeters or even more – per day. If it stays cold, the hop shoots tend to pull in their heads, depending on the variety. So when do the seasonal workers request that everything fits under corona regulations, when the people have on the farm so that they can work in one piece as possible? Many questions that a hop grower has to ask himself again and again and to which the answers were particularly difficult to find this year.

The shoots of the variety? Hallertauer Tradition?  are just the perfect size for twisting, excess is cut off.
The shoots of the “Hallertauer Tradition” variety are just the perfect size for turning, and any excess is cut off.

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A few hop-growers, depending on the location, variety and cultivation technique, started training a week ago, but for most of them this peak of work is now in season: For example, the Romanian helpers have been there since Thursday on the Widmann family’s farm in Hll, After a rain-related break, work started on Sunday – full of motivation, as hop farmer Alois Widmann says: “Our people are in a good mood.” Good prerequisites for the arduous work to go off easily.W-Z CAKE

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