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Those who farm are classified in
one of three categories; -very
small, middle or full time.
The very small farms consist of
five acres or less and carry the
label of holiday farms, Krag ex
plained. The owner of a mtddle
size farm, farms between five and
50 acres and is known as a part
time farmer. He normally works at
a job away from the farm. A full
time farmer works over 50 acres
and owns the green card.
Krag estimated that many of the
22-year-olds on the tour would own
a farm in five to six years after
initially working for another
farmer.
Approximately one-third of the
students who will graduate from
The second stop on the students’ tour was Leroy Esben
shade’s poultry farm. Students were able to watch the egg
packing machine which Esbenshade uses.
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have a farm background, he noted.
He estimated that 15 percent of the
graduating class were females and
some would also farm full time.
Students who originally grew up
on a farm, do not have an ad
vantage in obtaining a farm. They
must pay the fair market price or
slightly under the market price;
they cannot inherit the family
farm, noted Jens Stisen, a teacher
at the college. If someone does
inherit the farm, the government
a value on the farm and
then presents the new owner with a
gift tax on the farm’s value, he
commented.
Education in the socialist state is
tree. However, students living on
the college campus must pay for
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their living expenses, Krag said.
These campus fees are less than
the student would pay living on his
own in town. Students may also
elect to continue their education in
agriculture and become a con
sultant, Stisen noted.
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Turmoil and Change
Krag noted the school is looking
to adjust its curriculum to meet the
changing face of Danish
agriculture. The trend in Denmark
is away from very small family
farms and towards large farms.
The problem with larger farms, he
observed, was obtaining quality
workers for every facet of the
operation.
Presently agriculture in Den
mark is in turmoil, Krag com
mented. Denmark is a member of
the European Economic Com
munity which fixes prices on a
farmer’s production. Recently,
these prices have been dropping.
A second concern for Danish
farmers are new laws regarding
manure storage and new taxes on
fertilizers, herbicides and
pesticides. These laws and taxes
are the direct result of the elec
tions being staged in Denmark
The politicians have tagged far
mers as the sole cause of the
country’s pollution problem, Krag
noted
The elections will be completed
in December New laws require
farmers to have facilities to store
manure for six months Krag
described the current upheaval as
"a storm in a water glass” which
farmers must find a way of dealing
with.
A direct result of Denmark’s
membership in the EEC has been
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the disappearance of the poultry
industry, Stisen explained. The
Danish farmers are not permitted
to compete with their EEC trading
partners. Therefore they produce
only enough eggs and poultry for
their fellow countryman’s use.
Stisen explained that farmers
comprise only 5 percent of Den
mark’s population of 5 million
people. All of the Danes are
competing for a portion of the
country’s 16,598 square miles.
Because of the space con
strictions, the type of agriculture is
high density. Stisen noted there are
few beef farms because of the
space requirements. Soil types in
Denmark range from sandy to
very good, he added.
In Lancaster County, the Danish
students visited David Landis’
dairy farm. The Lancaster family
farm boasts a rolling herd average
of 17,500 milk and 650 fat on 90
Holsteins
At this farm, the students
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quizzed Landis on his use of the
narrow milk inflations. They noted
that in Denmark many dairymen
are using the wider inflation. One
student eager to study American
dairy sires, gratefully and readily
accepted a bull book. The students
listened attentively to Landis and
quickly explored the farm to learn
about dairy farming in Lancaster
County.
Following the Landis farm, the
group learned how Leroy
Esbenshade, Manheim, raises his
90,000 laying hens. They viewed his
egg packing operation with wide
eyed interest.
The group also traveled to Ford-
Sperry’s New Holland plant,
Weaver’s poultry processing plant,
and an Amish dairy and tobacco
farm.
Milthers noted the students were
particularly interested in the
Amish due to the large number of
articles on Amish which appear in
Danish journals.
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