My own great grandfather went by his patronymic (Olsen) or his family's rather unique Norwegian farm name alternatively in US records until he completed his naturalization. Viking farms were usually small, unless the owner was wealthy. Fox farming peaked in Norway in 1939, just before World War Two, when the Nordic nation was the biggest world producer with almost 20,000 farms, according to a government report. Below is a list of the animals, crops and vegetables raised on a Viking farm: Chief among them percentage wise were Norway and Ireland. In addition, fish farmers produced some 2 420 tonnes of shellfish. Three percent of Norway’s total area is arable land. Norway is the biggest producer of farmed salmon in the world, with more than one million tonnes produced each year. With a very few exemptions, Norwegian farmers produce for the domestic market. Norway thus has a substantial net import … While religious choice continued to be a moving force for many, economic freedom and the dream to own land impelled many, many more. Still, the country’s degree of selfsufficiency is less than 50 per cent on an energy basis. The farm name was actually their ADDRESS in Norway but was often used as an identifier in ways similar to a "last name". Most Vikings were farmers, a common fact of the medieval era, even if they also traded or fished part of the time. According to the preliminary figures for 2019, there were more than 210 thousand dairy cows on Norwegian farms. Norwegian companies own many of Scotland's salmon farms … A tenant farmer in Norway was known as a husmann (plural: husmenn) and were most common in the mid-19th century when they constituted around one-quarter of the country's population.Heavy demands were placed on these tenants by their landlords, the bønder or land-owning farmers. Denmark and the United States are among six countries that have reported new coronavirus cases linked to mink farms, the World Health Organization said. In recent years, the number of dairy cows in Norway decreased slightly. In 2017, production of salmon and trout was nearly 1 284 682 tonnes, of which 1 219 235 tonnes were salmon and 65 447 tonnes were trout. For the first wave of immigrants, America was a land of hard work as farmers, fishermen, longshoremen, domestic servants and odd jobs. Norway´s total aquaculture production was 1 289 808 tonnes in 2017. While some farms were isolated, many grouped together in small farming villages. Just put in the map name starting with a Capital letter and it will bring up all the farms with that name through-out Norway. If you know the Fylke you can of course select that such as 04 Hedmark or whatever and then put in the farm name and hit your enter key. Salmon and trout have become major export products from Norway, and together with Norwegian fish farming equipment, technology, and consultancy services are sold into many markets around the world.