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<blockquote data-quote="egbert" data-source="post: 5873252" data-attributes="member: 9965"><p>It's too big a subject to give short simple answer, but i'll have a go. feel free to correct me! </p><p></p><p>In General....</p><p>Trad UK hill farms will feature a small block of improved 'inbye' -and often the better ground anyway, although the historic management might have as great an effect as land type.Shelter and rising water was often as important for the location of the farmstead. </p><p>Adjoining unimproved ground, whether common or enclosed, was used to extensively graze stock. Cows were seldom strictly sucklers, but milked/dual purpose, and numbers often small for obvious reasons of winter fodder availability.</p><p>Where there was more useful land available, there were often just more farmsteads, rather than larger farmsteads.</p><p></p><p>Upland farms are now typically wholly livestock operations.</p><p>But pre-war (to pick a time frame, although it's been on/off for a lot longer) many were still 'mixed farms', utilising their meagre 'in bye' to grow a few crops, both as stock feed, and as a limited cash/subsistence crop.</p><p>The increasing mechanisation/specialisation of crop growing, -and various political/international trade aspects- were bound to leave behind small/difficult cropping operations.</p><p>If you could reliably buy a few sacks of flour, why go to the trouble of trying to grow corn?</p><p>During the war, the push to grow crops saw in bye on many hill farms ploughed again -often with dismally wasted results, although some of that was resistance to outside instructions!</p><p></p><p>Post war, subs and rapidly specialising systems everywhere saw the lean toward livestock grow.</p><p>At the same time, 'improving' unimproved ground through mechanical drainage and easier logistics to transport lime/ferts saw outlying poorer ground altered.</p><p>(sometimes successfully!).</p><p> </p><p>Generally, the inbye remains the best ground surrounding the farmstead.</p><p>Soggy peat is wanting to remain soggy peat as hard as you try to convince it otherwise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="egbert, post: 5873252, member: 9965"] It's too big a subject to give short simple answer, but i'll have a go. feel free to correct me! In General.... Trad UK hill farms will feature a small block of improved 'inbye' -and often the better ground anyway, although the historic management might have as great an effect as land type.Shelter and rising water was often as important for the location of the farmstead. Adjoining unimproved ground, whether common or enclosed, was used to extensively graze stock. Cows were seldom strictly sucklers, but milked/dual purpose, and numbers often small for obvious reasons of winter fodder availability. Where there was more useful land available, there were often just more farmsteads, rather than larger farmsteads. Upland farms are now typically wholly livestock operations. But pre-war (to pick a time frame, although it's been on/off for a lot longer) many were still 'mixed farms', utilising their meagre 'in bye' to grow a few crops, both as stock feed, and as a limited cash/subsistence crop. The increasing mechanisation/specialisation of crop growing, -and various political/international trade aspects- were bound to leave behind small/difficult cropping operations. If you could reliably buy a few sacks of flour, why go to the trouble of trying to grow corn? During the war, the push to grow crops saw in bye on many hill farms ploughed again -often with dismally wasted results, although some of that was resistance to outside instructions! Post war, subs and rapidly specialising systems everywhere saw the lean toward livestock grow. At the same time, 'improving' unimproved ground through mechanical drainage and easier logistics to transport lime/ferts saw outlying poorer ground altered. (sometimes successfully!). Generally, the inbye remains the best ground surrounding the farmstead. Soggy peat is wanting to remain soggy peat as hard as you try to convince it otherwise. [/QUOTE]
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