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- From: KAKerby AT aol.com
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:25:19 -0400 (EDT)
Ireland exported both wheat and corn to Great Britain during the vast
majority of the famine years, and most years they were able to meet their
export quotas even during the heights of the famine. And the potato
famine was not a single event - waves of famine swept the Emerald Isle for
almost 75 years - an entire generation. Long story short, it was a
classic tenant farmer situation where the growers were on contract to grow
export crops with the majority of their lands, and food crops with the
leftovers. They were also given "improved" seed stock for food crops and
required to use those rather than locally developed varieties. If they met
their production quotas, they stayed. If they didn't, they lost their
lease, went into town to work and someone else got the land. The only
times that districts failed to meet export quotas were when there were simply
not enough people anymore to work that particular area. I'm glossing over
a lot but that was the gist of it.
My great grandfather walked off the family farm at the age of 24 with
nothing but the clothes on his back and enough money in his pocket for that
one-way ticket. He sailed from Limerick in 1898 and never went
back. He married a relative (first cousin actually) who had come over
either right before or right after he did. The entire extended family
stayed in the Brooklyn/Yonkers area until my father moved to Denver in the
1960's. I'm the first one in the family to return to the land, four
generations later. I sometimes wonder what my great grandfather
would say if he could walk our land and talk with me about his
experiences. I debate whether he'd encourage me to stay with ag, or shake
his head and tell me it's not worth the heartache. Hard call.
Kathryn Kerby
frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
In a message dated 9/22/2011 5:32:14 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
vaspencer AT sisna.com writes:
Hear, hear! Thank you Kathryn! I have heard, can you verify--that |
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn
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- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, sals3, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Brigette Leach, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, McCormick, Rebecca (Genworth), 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Richard Stewart, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
KAKerby, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Vern and Amy, 09/22/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
sunnfarm, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Road's End Farm, 09/20/2011
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[Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
Steve Gilman, 09/20/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Marty Kraft, 09/20/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn,
KAKerby, 09/22/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn, Vern and Amy, 09/22/2011
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