When you ask some one about farming you think of some man out in a field with a horse pulling a one-row plow. The fact is that agriculture has made many improvements over the years. There are new technologies to help your farm operation grow. Some technologies help keep track of land and chemical saving time and money.
Once upon a time back in the day farm equipment was pulled by a workhorse and took forever to go over just a few acres. Horses had to rest ever couple of hours and needed water after that. It took all day to get just about nothing done! Planters could only get about twenty acres a day two rows at a time. A plow was even slower, barely able to get twelve acres! All in all the farmer did gust about as much work.
He walked behind and kept the horse moving only stopping to bring the horse water. There was also no way to kill weeds except pull them out with your bare hands. Ouch! Also with so much work that needed to be done all the family members had to take their own......
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