Michael Spies in Germany is sweating over his leasing bid for fifty hectares of farmland. He will have to offer at least twice as much as before if he wants to stand a chance of farming this land owned by the Protestant Church. As someone running an operation on 270 hectares, he can hardly afford to loose fifty. If he did, he would have to reorganize his carefully scheduled crop rotation and risk jeopardizing his self-sufficient feed cycle.