sentence: Larger fields are easier to manage and more economical.
sentences_before: Since the 1960s, people understood that it would be much easier for a farmer to have all his fields together so that he did not have to keep making journeys between lots of small fields.
sentences_after: The German government encouraged farmers to swap some of their fields among themselves so that each farmer had his land all in one place.
concept_name: larger field
headings: Flurbereinigung History
categories: Agriculture Nature Wines Geography of Germany Food in Germany