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I was very surprised on the camino that Lamborghini built tractors too. The story is Lamborghini, once successful, bought a number of high end cars. While he was a good mechanic, he was a bad driver and was hard on the clutch. He either complained to Ferrari or offered an unwelcome suggestion and got an insult in return which resulted in a new car company being created.I remember an early morning stop for coffee in a village when a farmer emerged from his garage in a bright green Lamborghini, Lamborghini tractor that is
In Australia, the right to build and live on a house on the farm is generally part of the bundle of property rights associated with owning that farming land.I recall on my first camino observing the change from a village hub system to one where houses started to appear on separate farms, somewhere shortly after Sarria. Perhaps I walked at a time of year where it was obvious further west that farmers drove out in tractors or cars to where they were going to work for the day. I found this fascinating, coming from a country where farming families live on their land, and getting to where one is going to work is largely internal to the farm. However, there are many seasonal farm jobs where itinerant workers will find accommodation in a town and travel out to local farms where they will work.
We could highjack this thread discussing the development of our current systems of land use and property 'rights'. Where I live, the ACT, is a microcosm of this, starting with legal settlement east of the Murrumbidgee, illegal squatting west of that, the early attempts to break up the large grazing properties at the end of the 19thC, families eking out their lives in unproductive use of the land, post WWI soldier-settler schemes that allocated properties too small to support a family, and much more. Even today, changes are taking place that will make the future look different again. I can only hope we have learned enough to make good choices from amongst the options we have as we go forward.In Australia, the right to build and live on a house on the farm is generally part of the bundle of property rights associated with owning that farming land.
I was very surprised on the camino that Lamborghini built tractors too. The story is Lamborghini, once successful, bought a number of high end cars. While he was a good mechanic, he was a bad driver and was hard on the clutch. He either complained to Ferrari or offered an unwelcome suggestion and got an insult in return which resulted in a new car company being created.
Lamborghini Cars Were A Result Of A Tractor Company Owner Being Insulted by the Founder of Ferrari
Today I found out the creator of Lamborghini S.p.A. originally owned a tractor company, Lamborghini Trattori S.p.A., which produced tractors from surplus military hardware. He decided to get into making cars as a result of frustrations he had with a Ferrari he had purchased which ultimately...www.todayifoundout.com
Closer to the Camino - I have seen one or two whilst walking - from (vague) memory, one on each of CF (probably somewhere around O Cebreiro) and on CP...For those of you amused by the thought of a Lamborghini tractor you might want to check out "Clarkson's Farm" on amazon prime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarkson's_Farm. A Lamborghini tractor is prominently featured.
Tractors are everywhere on farms on the Primitivo, BUT so are lots of BIG Horses! Never saw any equipment for the horses to pull, so are they like the horses on the Frances--Meat Horses? Too big to be riding horses and much bigger than the horses our Amish use for plowing fields.Closer to the Camino - I have seen one or two whilst walking - from (vague) memory, one on each of CF (probably somewhere around O Cebreiro) and on CP...
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Luddites? Having seen the size of the combine harvesters that stalk the Saskatchewan prairies I'd say Canadian farmers are far removed from being Luddite!On my first Camino, i asked a farmer why he did not live out on his farm and he looked at me like I was crazy. "Why would i do that?, he replied. I want to be with my friends and relatives , not alone surrounded by fields". Don't our Luddites in America and Canada do the same thing?
……or we could decide not to hijack this thread…….We could highjack this thread discussing the development of our current systems of land use and property 'rights'. Where I live, the ACT, is a microcosm of this, starting with legal settlement east of the Murrumbidgee, illegal squatting west of that, the early attempts to break up the large grazing properties at the end of the 19thC, families eking out their lives in unproductive use of the land, post WWI soldier-settler schemes that allocated properties too small to support a family, and much more. Even today, changes are taking place that will make the future look different again. I can only hope we have learned enough to make good choices from amongst the options we have as we go forward.
Most of what I saw this spring looked like large commercial farms with thousands of hectares under cultivation, especially in areas of grain (barley, wheat and occasionally oats) and grape production. Wedged in between the commercial giants there were smaller farm units or “plots” owned by individual families looking to do more local/subsistence farming. I chatted to one tractor driver who rented out his tractor and time to the smaller farms who couldn’t afford a tractor of their own. In the current global economic model farms have to be a certain size in order to be commercially viable.A fellow walker pointed out to me that despite the large number of farms we passed, there were few - actually no - farm houses on the properties. So for weeks after, to León anyways, I would search for farmhouses on those big farms and come up empty.
Where are the farmers?
It seemed to me that in Rioja, the pattern of weed/insecticide spraying in what looked like one large vineyard indicated that this wasn't a single, monolithic holding, but rather a collection of smaller individual plots separately owned and managed. An alternative explanation is that one person owned and managed several disjoint sections of the vineyard. Or there could have been a mix of both these patterns.Most of what I saw this spring looked like large commercial farms with thousands of hectares under cultivation, especially in areas of grain (barley, wheat and occasionally oats) and grape production. Wedged in between the commercial giants there were smaller farm units or “plots” owned by individual families looking to do more local/subsistence farming. I chatted to one tractor driver who rented out his tractor and time to the smaller farms who couldn’t afford a tractor of their own. In the current global economic model farms have to be a certain size in order to be commercially viable.
The division between all children only happens in Ourense province. In the other three provinces, one of them gets most of the land (including the house), under the condition that he (or she) must be a farmer. In case of two or more candidates, the parents decide who is the "mellorado/a" (improved). If nobody wants to be a farmer, then the property is devided among all.In Galicia , according to my daughter [ so I might be wrong ] when the last parent dies the farm is to be divided equally between all children. My wife then got involved and mentioned if Galicia and Ireland are first cousins do the same inheritance laws exist that we came across years ago , that the female siblings are not included in the breakup of the land ?
As i have said previously the home with the beaten up cars , tractors and utes outside a home or cafe / restaurant in any village is where you have your meals at lunch time. Home cooked for the workers .
How nice to hear from you, @Pelegrin. I was hoping that you would notice the thread and contribute some of your local knowledge.The division between all children only happens in Ourense province. In the other three provinces, one of them gets most of the land (including the house), under the condition that he (or she) must be a farmer. In case of two or more candidates, the parents decide who is the "mellorado/a" (improved). If nobody wants to be a farmer, then the property is devided among all.
Yes, but many of them (Concentracion parcelaria) failed because some farmers didn't agree with the result and the part they had.How nice to hear from you, @Pelegrin. I was hoping that you would notice the thread and contribute some of your local knowledge.
Like numerous other pilgrims, I occasionally made comparisons between the structure of fields and villages along the Camino Francés and what I was familiar with from "home". I very much enjoyed looking at the green pattern of Galicia with what appeared to me to be smallish fields and meadows, neatly limited and separated from each other. Along a section of the Camino Francés in Castilla y Leon I noticed what appeared to me to be very large fields - I am bad at estimating, so I cannot say how many hectares they had. I wondered who owned them. A forum member helpfully sent me a link about latifundios and minifundios and I've tried to learn a bit more about this.
I grew up in a village of about 800 inhabitants. In the 1950s, nearly every family was a farmer family and of course they all lived in the village. Nowadays, there are perhaps about 3 full-time farmers left in the village who own or lease most of the agricultural land (including the one field that I have inherited). Some land is still used by their owners who, however, have a different main job and work only in the evenings or on Saturdays on their land, or who are pensioners. Due to inheritance laws and/or traditions similar to what you describe for Galicia, individual fields had also been split many times at each succession and had become tiny and fragmented. In the 1960s, there was a large scale land reform that changed this. I understand that there have been similar attempts in parts of Spain, known as Concentración parcelaria?
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