On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:12:50 +0000, Keith Anderson wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:47:14 +0100, Martin wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:33:08 +0000, Keith Anderson wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:01:26 +0100, Martin wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:30:11 +0100, Tim C. wrote:
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>>>>>Following up to barney2@cix.compulink.co.uk :
>>>>>
>>>>>> The land looked somehow different, too
>>>>>>- maybe agricultural methods were not the same, or maybe the east and west
>>>>>>emphasised different crops. I don't know.
>>>>>
>>>>>Larger fields in the East.
>>>>
>>>>They were ones in the former GDR were collectivised, resulting in some of the
>>>>most efficiently farmed land in Europe, but nobody mentions that.
>>>
>>>And they even shoved a picture of combine harvesters on the back of
>>>their 5 Mark banknote!
>>
>>It was something the EU didn't want to know about.
>
>Interesting - anything in books or on the Internet about this? I
>visited the DDR and have a reasonable range of books in English and
>German about it (pet subject of mine) but little about agriculture
>there.
>
>Any chance of some sources/links?
I don't know I read it in an article a few years after reunification.
A lot of the land in the former W Germany is/was very fragmented because of
Napoleonic inheritance laws. Maybe you can see the effect using Google Earth?
--
Martin
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