Farms in Norway

[Agvg]

Just a pic from my drive to my farm today, it's taken in Lærdal.

 

[ovrszd]

Beautiful!! Absolutely beautiful!!! Thanks for posting this pic.

 

[Thomas]

Peaceful and relaxing....my kinda homestead. :thumbsup:

 

[Ortimber]

Really cool!

 

[bullbreaker]

Just a pic from my drive to my farm today, it's taken in L誡dal.View attachment 614295

Beautiful peaceful living ! Have you ever seen any moose ,elk or reindeer around there ? .....

 

[Agvg]

Reindeer are on the mountain, have a few hunting license for them, Deer in large amounts, there are some elk that wander in from the forest in the east but they don't cope very well with the landscape in wintertime. We hunt both elk and Deere.

 

[LouNY]

The valley looks like decent farm ground, looks to get quite steep pretty fast.
Beautiful country though.

 

[oosik]

Very beautiful. Looks a lot like the few pics I've seen of my grandparents farm in the Gudbrandsdalen valley. Cows in the pastures on the floor bottoms - goats & sheep on the sloped sides.

 

[ovrszd]

I'm hoping others from Norway will post pics. I have nothing to compare to that.

 

[stuckmotor]

A beautiful valley. Does it ever flood?

 

[Agvg]

A beautiful valley. Does it ever flood?

Not in this area but here where I have land that was a big problem, then it was built a hydroelectric power plant so now we don't have to worry about that.

 

[Agvg]

This is my farm, pic posted before on the forum.

 

[coobie]

Just a pic from my drive to my farm today, it's taken in L誡dal.View attachment 614295

Great pic..

 

[ovrszd]

This is my farm, pic posted before on the forum.View attachment 614339

Another great setting. Do you have a long history there?

Wish you were my neighbor. I could get some great pics with my Drone.

 

[Agvg]

Belive it has been in the family between 350 - 400 years but all the houses was moved around 1890 when it was a landreform that should make farming more effective. Befor it was a lot of tiny patches of land with different owners, the reform made it so all your small patches was made in to larger fields, all farms her was in this reform and most of them was moved.

 

[Agvg]

From today it's 30C outside.

 

[Egon]

Thank you for the pictures.

 

[ovrszd]

Belive it has been in the family between 350 - 400 years but all the houses was moved around 1890 when it was a landreform that should make farming more effective. Befor it was a lot of tiny patches of land with different owners, the reform made it so all your small patches was made in to larger fields, all farms her was in this reform and most of them was moved.

Was this a government directed land reform?

We have a lot of government involvement in farming here. The size of our farms continues to grow. As the small farmers retire, the large farmers buy them.

A very good friend of mine plants 25,000 acres of corn/soybeans each year.

 

[Agvg]

Yes, it was to increase productivity, I think only 3% of the landmass in Norway is farmland so this was very important to get the most out of, even under cold war there was focus on this, goverment did pay for large fuel tanks so you should have fuel for a certain amount of time for you farm.

 

[bullbreaker]

Another great setting.

Wish you were my neighbor. I could get some great pics with my Drone.

Morning Richard ! I will keep that in mind in case I buy a property near you because my girlfriend likes to sunbath in her birthday suit on a lounge chair behind the barn . Every time I see your drone instead of shooting it down I will just send you a bill ! :laughing:


Agvg hello again . Back like 30 years ago I did some research on the Kon-Tiki voyage and Thor Heyerdahl . Oslo must be like over 4 hours south of you ? Just wondered if you are familiar with the museum and have actually visited it ?