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38 THE RURAL VOICE
News
Bruce farmers get
lesson in perspective
For Bruce County farmers dealing
with poor crop prices, poor weather
and the pressure of constant change,
Ralph Dietrich and Pat Kuntz
brought a little perspective when they
described conditions in eastern
Europe to the 120 people attending
the annual meeting of the county's
Federation of Agriculture, October
27.
Dietrich and Kuntz were part of
the class of the Advanced
Agricultural Leadership Program that
toured former communist countries
such as Poland, Hungary, the Czech
Republic and Slovakia, as well as
Austria.
Former east block countries are
adopting different strategies in
dealing with the transition from
communism, they revealed. In
Slovakia, for instance, the huge
collective farms have been changed
into co-operatives. In the Czech
Republic, the former 1,000 to 5,000
hectare collective farms have been
broken up and returned to their
original owners or the heirs of the
owners, often resulting in small 2 to
50 hectare parcels. The former
collective farm workers, used to 40 -
hour, five-day weeks, weren't
prepared for the hard work of
running a farm on their own and the
younger generation is starting to quit
farming and move to towns to work
in factories.
Slovakia is having to deal with a
future poisoned, literally, by the
communist heritage. In trying to meet
requirements of central planning for
their collective farms, the
communists overfertilized their fields
and the fertilizer ran off, poisoning
the rivers.
Changes are coming, however,
and Canadian dairy genetics are
helping. In Slovakia a local
company has a joint venture with
Semex International and Canadian
bulls are being bred to local dairy
stock with milk volumes increasing
dramatically over the past 10 years.
Slovakian farmers have other
problems, however, with interest