Farm shop
A farm shop is a business that is directly connected to a farm and in which products from the farm are sold. The term “ ex-farm” sales is also common.
Often purchased goods are also offered in farm shops . There are farm shops that have a limited range of goods and others that sell many products , depending on the concept. Since “farm shop” is not a protected term, it happens that shops that have no connection to an agricultural operation and only sell purchased goods also refer to themselves as such. In order to clearly distinguish the farm shops of the agricultural direct marketers from other shops (supermarkets, bakeries, butchers, delicatessen and natural food stores), the nationwide brand “Shopping on the farm” was created in 1989 by the sponsoring association of the same name and registered with the German Patent and Trademark Office .
In terms of the trade regulations
Whether direct marketing in the farm shop has to be reported as a trade within the meaning of the trade regulations (Germany) depends on the proportion of self-produced products offered, the degree of processing , the location and the turnover of the farm shop. The marketing of self-made agricultural natural products, e.g. B. Milk, eggs, wool or honey from the farm can be assigned to primary agricultural production and does not constitute a trade in the sense of the trade regulations.
A slight expansion to include third-party products does not automatically lead to the acceptance of a trade. The demarcation between agricultural and commercial activity is often controversial in practice due to the lack of a definition in commercial law. When assessing individual cases, the trade offices are guided by the corresponding administrative guidelines and the numerous court judgments, from which further delimitations can be found. In general, revenues that make up less than 10 percent of the total sales of the direct marketing company are considered insignificant.
Marketing of processed and refined products beyond the first processing stage is generally no longer viewed as primary agricultural production.
If the sales of a farm shop with purchased goods consistently exceed a third of the total sales or € 51,500, this is assessed as an independent business enterprise.
Shop closing regulations
The mere agricultural sale from the barn or from the yard without special sales equipment is possible without observing the shop closing times. This also applies if the sale of fruit, asparagus, other vegetables and potatoes is only temporary from the farm or on the roadside, for example during the harvest season. Since a farm shop usually has a fixed, equipped room, it is tied to the regular shop opening hours. The regulation of the shop opening times in Germany lies with the federal states.
Web links
- Mein-Bauernhof.de - Directory for farm shops in the entire German-speaking area
- Farm shop Bauernladen.info - another directory of farm shops
- farmshops.eu crowdsourced directory based on OpenStreetMap
- Hofladen.info - another directory
Switzerland:
Individual evidence
- ↑ Support group "Shopping on the farm". Retrieved September 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Direct Marketing - Important Direct Marketing Legislation. (No longer available online.) Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry, January 2011, archived from the original on July 15, 2014 ; Retrieved July 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Direct marketing - when is commercial activity threatened. (No longer available online.) In: Landwirtschaftliche Zeitschrift Rheinland, No. 47, 2009. Rheinischer Landwirtschaft-Verlag, 2009, pp. 16–17 , archived from the original on April 29, 2018 ; accessed on April 29, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Info direct marketing. (No longer available online.) Stuttgart Regional Council, September 2013, archived from the original on July 28, 2014 ; Retrieved July 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
