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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1977
Page
13
Lyle Kew from Mondovi and a 6,000 acre South African ranch works at Francis Weisenbeck dairy farm Rt. 2 Mondovi through a University of Minnesota work study program. He notes American agriculture is highly mechanized and that US equipment leads worldwide.
Menno Attema from Dronten, Oostelijk Flevoland, explains Dutch farming with 34 hectares of crops and co op marketing while living with a New Richmond host family. Lyle from South Africa describes grazing in dry regions, Merino sheep, Bonsmara cattle, and a ranching future amid bilingual English Afrikaans society.
Jens Chresten Nielsen, a 24 year old Dane hosted by the Galen Engel family, works on a 360 acre farm with turkeys cattle and pigs along Hwy 95 near here. He notes Danish farms are more specialized and says Americans and Danes share concerns over prices soil conservation and learning from each other.
Four foreign students live with Buffalo and St Croix county farm families as part of the University of Minnesota International Agricultural Student Work-Study Program. The program includes 61 participants, with most placed in Minnesota and the Dakotas. Students work on farms through December and attend winter sessions at the U of M then may return home or continue on host farms through summer.
Knudt Sorensen from Store Fuglede Denmark visits Russell Strate's Rt. 1 Roberts farm. He explains that corn is not grown in his 50 acre area due to climate near the sea and far north. His family raises pigs on barley soybeans and sugar beets.
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