Forgotten peasant mirrors Poland's socialist revolution
John Darnton reports from Warsaw that Poland uniquely preserves the old peasant farmer amid 20th century changes. While Western Europe and the East lean toward agribusiness or state farms, Poland’s 3.5 million private peasants still dream of an independent union, with most farms run by families over 60. Government focus on industry and flawed price supports have depressed incentives, worsened shortages, and left rural life largely unchanged except for electrification and rising literacy.
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John Darnton
New York Times
Warsaw
Europe
East
Poland
Gdansk
Supreme Court
Rural Solidarity grows from Polish farm resistance
Private farmers face limited pensions tied to state deliveries, tax pressures, and inflation. Dissatisfied growers form Committees for Peasant Self-Defense in Lublin and other towns, organize a Rural Solidarity movement, win broad farm support, but seek legal registration while politicians urge moderation and cooperation with existing agricultural groups.
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United Peasants’ Party
Activ
Ism
Lublin
Grojec
Przemysl
Rzeszow
Siedlice
Lisow
Radom
Zdzslaw Osttek
Warsaw
Solidarity
Philharmonic Hall
Cracow
Stanislaw Kanin
Poultry industry sees brighter future in 81
Washington AP reports the Agriculture Department project for 1981 shows broiler production could rise about 6 percent from 1980 as pork supplies contract and consumer incomes grow. Higher costs and feed prices, plus a potential egg production dip early in 1981, are noted with later gains expected. Turkey output may also increase about 6 percent from 1980.
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Washington
Turkey
Coal fines as bedding trial at SIU Carbondale
SIU Carbondale dairy cows are tested with coal fines as bedding for free stalls to cut costs. The experiment shows coal fines, a coal washing by product, provide a low cost, low labor bedding option with minimal hardening when wet. Estimated annual cost about $12 per cow versus $30 for limestone and higher for straw or wood shavings.
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Gordon Billingsley
Southern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University At
Carbondale
Siu-C
Siu-C School of Agriculture
David Harmon
Harmon
Illinois
Hunter Packing Co closing likely temp hit to area hog market
Area hog producers face a short term dip after Hunter Packing Co halted operations in East St Louis on December 24, ending 75 years in Southern Illinois. Analysts expect new buyers to enter the market, keeping competition and prices from collapsing, with the National Stockyards upgrading facilities and daily hog sales rising from about 6,000 to 8,000.
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Nashville, Il
Hunter Packing Co
Interstate Producers Livestock Association
Nashville, Ill
Stritchlow
Madison
Wis
Oscar Meyer
Krause
Hunter
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Mgr
Sam
R. A. Williams
Ergennes
D‘con Rat
Murphysboro
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BRA
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