Now she herself runs a farm business with 2500 hectares of arable land. Mind you, there is a great deal more that enthuses Dr. Anna Catharina Voges.

She loves city life and everything it has to offer. She needs that to achieve a measure of balance and to achieve a critical distance, as Anna Catharina Voges explains. This slim woman has just run over to her office across the old cobblestones of her farmyard. That office is in a white half-timbered house with grass-green doors. Opposite stands the farmhouse building that is in the process of being renovated. In a light hearted tone, the CEO of Saat-Gut Plaussig Voges KG, a company based here, said "Perhaps I might rent it out for parties". A park starts just behind the historical building. The river Parthe winds its sinuous way through the parkland. A narrow river that flows from the North East through the city centre of Leipzig before, to the South West of the city, flowing into the White Elster. This waterway links life here in the rural suburb of Plaussig-Portitz with life in the city centre. A link that very much reflects the nature of Anna Catharina Voges. That is because this woman lives right in the middle of Leipzig and works here in the countryside.

Anna Voges grew up as the daughter of a farmer on a familyowned business with 120 hectares in the little Weserbergland town of Hameln. It may be because of this that she now runs her own company, employing a staff of 13, in the manner of a family business. She places great emphasis on having a good relationship with her workforce. Everyone knows one another and their families, and can talk about their good times as well as about their trials and tribulations. Everyone gets together socially at the annual harvest festival in autumn. Her colleagues, her parents and her brother, who now lives in Zurich. In 2008 Anna Voges took charge of the 2500 hectare market fruit-growing business from her father Hans-Otto Voges, who acquired the former State-owned Plaussig plant production business back in 1992. He developed that business and is now passing it on to the next generation. "Especially during my early days in the business, my father was an important source of support, but he was also a tough act to follow, in that he had set the bar pretty high", she admitted. "Mind you, somewhere down the line you develop your own way of doing things. Some things you take on, some things you don't.“ For example, she adopted three decisions in the company, the first being to drive Fendt tractors, the second being to paint them yellow right down to the wheel rims, and then at the end of each day to arrange what at present are seven Fendt tractors from the 900 series on the farm in an orderly row. Like beads on a thread. The unusual yellow of these Fendt tractors is one of the three corporate colours of Saat-Gut Plaußig KG, the other two being grass-green and blue, and it also appears in the company logo.