102—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 11,1978
British compare farming wh
By DORIS HENRIQUE
University of Delaware
All those tired old jokes
about the farmer as an
untraveled yokel are going
to have to change. For one
thing, farmers get around
too much these days. Take
the 65 British farmers who
passed through Delaware a
few weeks ago with their
wives on an American
agricultural tour.
During their day-long stay
m the state the travelers -
most of whom are livestock
producers - toured the new
swine production unit at the
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jy compare British and American farming - These Welsh and Scottish
livestock farmers noted many differences between their way of farming and
ours, during recent visit to Delaware.
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University of Delaware’s
Georgetown Substation,
observed a corn sheller
(combine) at work on the
farm of Alton Rogers just
outside of Georgetown, and
visited the King Cole Ranch
near Milton for a look at the
unusual but highly suc
cessful beef feedlot
operation.
Those on the tour were
pretty typical of British
farmers, according to
Stewart Seton, editor of the
“Fanners’ Guardian,” the
newspaper that sponsored
the trip. His weekly has a
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circulation of 32,000 covering
the northern half of England
and Wales. “Farming,
especially in our area,” he
says, “is principally
livestock - dairy, beef,
sheep, quite a lot of intensive
pork production, and
poultry. There’s also a fair
amount of com grown.”
What Seton calls “corn,”
however, is something quite
different from what we
Americans call com
This word, in the British
Isles, is another name for
wheat, oats or barley. Our
American corn goes by the
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Delaware corn harvest catches British eye - Visiting British farmers and then
wives watch combine at work in Delaware cornfield. Most had never seen thi<
crop growing before.
name “maize” or “Indie
corn” over there, and
because of growing con
ditions, most of it is im
ported Also because of the
cool, damp British climate,
they can’t grow soybeans at
all
Besides being impressed
at the amount of corn and
soybeans they saw in
Delaware fields, the visitors
were surprised at the fact
that farmers here get three
times as much money for
their beans as they do for trough, their price is aboui
corn. By the time these two even
crops get to a British feed
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