After World War 2, why did European farmers switch from crop cultivation to grazing?
Upvote:3
There are many reasons why a farmer could opt for grazing instead of growing crops post-war.
- Soil quality. There are areas that just are not suited for crops. Others pretty much require heavy use of fertilizer, which usually was not be available.
- Labor / tools / fuel requirements. You need to plow and harrow, sow and reap. Grazing is much less labor-intensive (as per the comments of SJuan76 and Dohn Joe).
- Availability of seeds (as per Pieter Geerkens comment).
- Infrastructure / marketability of the produce. Selling large amounts of grain needs buyers of large amounts of grain.
Right after the war, a lot of trade was done on the individual level, as much of the infrastructure (both technical and commercial) was destroyed. People from the cities travelled large distances to "acquire" foodstuffs directly. A piece of ham, or better even, sausages, was easier to transport than a sack of potatoes. Easier to smuggle through a checkpoint, too...
I'd love to give sources on this, but this is as anecdotal as it gets, coming from my grandparents. ;-)
More post
- 📝 Did the Germans have enough bombers to conduct "strategic" bombing of the Soviet Union?
- 📝 Who deposited German fuel drums on a Japanese air base in the Kuril Islands in 1943?
- 📝 Was the N.E.P. of Russia successful in terms of economics?
- 📝 Why didn't Gengis Khan invade India?
- 📝 Why didn't the Hungarians help the battle of Kosovo?
- 📝 Is there a symbol associated with Loki from the Norse pantheon?
- 📝 In what European countries did non-hereditary nobility exist? (XVII-XIX centuries)
- 📝 Did more Jews live in Poland than any other country, prior to the Holocaust, because of how Polish laws and people regarded Jews?
- 📝 Is rye bread Turkish?
- 📝 How confusing was British currency compared to decimal currency circa 1850?
- 📝 Were there any pro-Native American groups during the Indian Wars?
- 📝 Why was Prince Philip given these specific titles before marrying Princess Elizabeth?
- 📝 Is there a population density map of pre-Columbian South America?
- 📝 Did Western "New Imperialism" actually free slaves in Muslim lands?
- 📝 Has there ever been a truly multi-sided war?
- 📝 Does the ≈400,000 figure for US soldiers killed in WW2 include the ≈80,000 MIA?
- 📝 What possible uniform with decoration is my ancestor from New South Wales in the early 1900's wearing?
- 📝 Virginia's response to Harper's Ferry, compared to the US response to 9/11
- 📝 When and where, exactly, did the concept of a male god eating grapes orginate?
- 📝 What's the rationale for shipping coins back to Spain from its colonies?
- 📝 Did George McGovern publicly support Jimmy Carter in 1976?
- 📝 Was there ever a type of powered model car/vehicle racing, where the cars were in no way controlled, and were all on the one single shared track?
- 📝 Why did the Allies Invade French North Africa?
- 📝 What would be a typical rank for KGB intelligence officers spying abroad in the 1980s?
- 📝 Is there any truth to my family's story about "Cooper's Pie Wagon"?
- 📝 Origin of left and right-hand road traffic rules, respectively
- 📝 When the national leader is a foreigner
- 📝 Why didn't Great Britain give the colonies voting rights?
- 📝 What was Captain Vozdvit's real name?
- 📝 The Sumatrans told Marco Polo that there was an island to the Southeast. Were they referring to Australia?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 After World War 2, why did European farmers switch from crop cultivation to grazing?
- 📝 Why did the Soviet Union not "grant" Inner Mongolia to Mongolia after World War Two?
- 📝 Why did Germany decide not to restore the Hohenzollern dynasty to the throne of a German Empire after the defeat of Hitler in World War Two?
- 📝 Why did Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia remain loyal to France during and after World War II?
- 📝 Why did the attempts to keep Africa colonized after World War II fail?
- 📝 Why did Native Americans die from European diseases while Europeans didn't catch serious diseases from the New World?
- 📝 Why was Spanish Fascist dictatorship left in power after World War II?
- 📝 Why did the German army execute so few soldiers in World War I compared to most other armies?
- 📝 Why did Chamberlain act to appease Hitler leading up to the outbreak of World War 2?
- 📝 What did Germany do after World War II to recover so successfully that it became more prosperous than its WW2 victors?
- 📝 Why did the United States enter World War I?
- 📝 Why did it take so long for the Germans to develop the first tank model in World War I?
- 📝 Why did Spain not participate in World War I?
- 📝 How did Germany rebuild so quickly after World War I?
- 📝 Did Japan ever pay Russia war reparations after WW2? Why or why not?
- 📝 Why did the British have so few destroyers going into World War II?
- 📝 Why did World War I victors let Germany pay reparations in German Marks and gave it the option to default via inflation?
- 📝 Why did Bakht Khan switch sides in Indian War of Independence 1857?
- 📝 World War 1: Why did Italy not fight until 1915?
- 📝 Why did Russia support Serbia in the years leading to World War I?
- 📝 Why did antique guns and swords from the Franco-Prussian War make part of the demilitarization program to which Germany was subjected?
- 📝 Why did science flourish in Germany after the First World War?
- 📝 How did Turkey achieve such a quick military rebound after World War I?
- 📝 Why did the USSR switch from 1524 mm gauge to 1520 mm gauge in the late 1960's?
- 📝 Why did the French "surrender" all of its troops during the armistice in World War II?
- 📝 Why did Black and Asian immigrants from the Empire not come to Britain in substantial numbers until after WW2?
- 📝 Did the Soviet Union get a net border gain from China during World War II?
- 📝 How did the use of tanks differ in the Pacific war from the European war?
- 📝 As newly independent countries after WWI, why didn't Baltic states have sovereignty dispute and war each other like other Eastern European countries?
- 📝 How did a criminal trial in the Soviet Union work after World War 2?