The story
The company was founded in 1946 as the "Bayerischer Landwirtschaftsverlag" by the Bavarian Farmers' Association. The Bavarian Farmers Association has been the main shareholder of the publisher since then. Beginning with the US military government allowing them "to publish books and periodicals", since the association wanted to support its farmers and rural women with technical literature during the reconstruction time after the war. Therefore, different agricultural pages and textbooks appeared in rapid succession. The BLV developed from agricultural publisher to trade publisher in the 1950s: in 1955, with the first published cookbook "Ich helfe Dir kochen" from Hedwig Maria Stuber which sold 100,000 copies in the first year and has now sold about 3.5 million times, followed by books for hunting and the first mountain tour books by Walter Pause or the South Tyrol-illustrated books by Sepp Schnürer.
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