Socio-economic Forces ~ Farming
  • Farmers worked independently and in isolation.
  • Local farms were not producing quality necessary for fiercely competitive market.
  • 41% of poultry raised were low grades (e.g. C and D).
  • Small volumes were being produced - subsistance farming.
  • Farmers accumulate debt and farm mortgages foreclosed by banks.
  • Farms abandoned when young men leave family farm to move to the city.
  • Elderly fathers maintain farm ownership.
  • Exporting impossible - no market outside N.S.
  • competition from Maine in the blueberry production industry.
  • Nova Scotia poultry farmers get poorest prices for crops in Canada.

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