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Therefore, rainy days were a relief, despite the possible damage to the hay that was drying in the fields. It was also important to have enough people on the farmstead and receive help particularly from relatives who had moved to live in the city and who took advantage of the summer holidays to “lend a hand” to their family.

At the end of this decade, the land consolidation processes meant that the considerable fragmentation to be found on private properties and which was a drawback, could be reorganised into larger plots. It should be noted that livestock specialisation was starting. This led to a progressive exodus from farming and the small surface area of the fields within the inherited land made them difficult to manage from the new parameters.

The involvement of local priests was decisive in the implementation of some of the aforementioned changes, such as the land consolidation and silage, along with another that was fundamental for the growth of livestock in Carranza: the setting up of feed cooperatives. The priests worked on convincing the locals by means of meetings that they held in the vestries of the many parish churches of the Carranza Valley.