The Lucknow Sentinel, 1991-03-06, Page 60•
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PROGRESS '91
problems, farmers must
flANOVER—if faunos are to c tion,.*that it eau be traded in the
break free of their current problems same way wasp a dollar hilt" • ,
they have to.. s 'by "dee fie said reducing fob ° to 4¢
mmodifyirte food and the laud, product made for "profit for those
saw, :J3rewster, Knee—o, g who on afford it a. strange way
Kneen, a Nova geod. fanner to feed the family.
and author of two books, spoke to "It is a utilitarian system : where
local tamers- - at Hanover t ninlais are simply. a , means of
Knights of Columbus mall - production and. end S. just O
We esday eight Feb.. 27. s was that pr netton4 �-- . •
the second of three rural , issues To adapt to that system, farmers
presentations sponsored by Rural have upgraded .,themselves from'
Connections. - , being a farmer to being a producer,.
Though Kneen said he is. usually 3 he said,: which, alienates them from
an optimistic person, he has become what they are doing. '
depressed over " the current world Soniewhere • along ..the way,
fond situation. He said farmers:have farmers were taught to distrust their
been. manipulated by... large r ap own instincts and to rely on experts
potations into using food as a to interpret their : daily focus, -he
modity. A respect for food and for said. Farmers have also been led to
the landbecame lost along the way, believe that if_ they don't adapt to
he said. • a technologythey shoouldget out of
' 'he commodification of landand fanning, he said.;
vuti pared earn." patties that brat are puwihorones
for better efficiency and inoduo,
tivitya One example la. the Bovine
Growth Noone for cows; he said.
'Sere is something they (drug
eoa ptun1es) agured out. lythe early
80s how to make synthetically, :.
itis supposed t0 increase 'Production-,
and make farmerr *nom- coin-
etitiw VIt "'sounded -good, Ott was.
• new technology, so it went along.
`'What we found ; were :fat'mers
who didn't want toYttse itt but they
felt they had to, to be cornu ti vc."
Though it appears "to .lam "a dismal
situation farmers 'have fallen into,.
he said it isn't like" that all the time.
.At Same' point, farmers are brought
back to the basics; and he said it
imay i be "in those first few mntit utes
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