Now is a time of exciting new developments for live animal power.
Author: Stephen Leslie
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 9781603586139
Category: Draft horses
Page: 401
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Now is a time of exciting new developments for live animal power. As the numbers of adherents to this way of life grow, ecologically minded farmers in their fields are developing efficient horse-drawn systems, and equipment manufacturers in small shops all across North America and Europe are coming forth with new innovations in ground-drive technology that have us poised on the cusp of another agricultural revolution—with working horses, mules, donkeys, and oxen at the heart of it. --Publisher
Horse-Powered. Farm. new Tools for farming wiTh horses in The 21sT cenTury. One ofthe most immediate consequences ofAmish and Mennonite farmers' choice to stick with horse-drawn technology is how this technology has determined the scale ...
Author: Stephen Leslie
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 9781603584166
Category: Social Science
Page: 346
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The New Horse-Powered Farm is the first book of its kind, offering wisdom and techniques for using horse power on the small farm or homestead. It sets the stage for incorporating draft power on the farm by presenting necessary information for experienced and novice teamsters alike, including getting started with workhorses; the merits of different draft breeds; various training systems for the horse and teamster; haying with horses, seeding crops, and raising small grains; in-depth coverage of tools and systems; and managing a woodlot, farm economics, education, agritourism, and more. It's a must-have resource for any farmer, homesteader, or teamster seeking to work with draft power in a closed-loop farming system.
[51] Prior to this, basic agricultural tools had slowly been improved over centuries of use. ... but it was Jethro Tull's 1731 invention of a horse-drawn seed drill and horse hoe (a small plough to hoe between crop rows) that would ...
How Grass Farmers Can Create Sustainable Systems for Healthy Animals and Farm Ecosystems Sarah Flack ... 9781603586177 Paperback • $24.95 PUBLISHING HORSE-POWERED FARMING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY A Complete Guide to Equipment, Methods, ...
Author: Sarah Flack
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 9781603586115
Category: Grazing
Page: 240
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Grazing management might seem simple: just put livestock in a pasture and let them eat their fill. However, as Sarah Flack explains in The Art and Science of Grazing, the pasture/livestock relationship is incredibly complex. If a farmer doesn’t pay close attention to how the animals are grazing, the resulting poorly managed grazing system can be harmful to the health of the livestock, pasture plants, and soils. Well-managed pastures can instead create healthier animals, a diverse and resilient pasture ecosystem, and other benefits. Flack delves deeply below the surface of “let the cows eat grass,” demonstrating that grazing management is a sophisticated science that requires mastery of plant and animal physiology, animal behavior, and ecology. She also shows readers that applying grazing management science on a working farm is an art form that calls on grass farmers to be careful observers, excellent planners and record-keepers, skillful interpreters of their observations, and creative troubleshooters. The Art and Science of Grazing will allow farmers to gain a solid understanding of the key principles of grazing management so they can both design and manage successful grazing systems. The book’s unique approach presents information first from the perspective of pasture plants, and then from the livestock perspective—helping farmers understand both plant and animal needs before setting up a grazing system. This book is an essential guide for ruminant farmers who want to be able to create grazing systems that meet the needs of their livestock, pasture plants, soils, and the larger ecosystem. The book discusses all the practical details that are critical for sustained success: how to set up a new system or improve existing systems; acreage calculations; paddock layout; fence and drinking water access; lanes and other grazing infrastructure; managing livestock movement and flow; soil fertility; seeding and reseeding pastures; and more. The author includes descriptions of real grazing systems working well on dairy, beef, goat, and sheep farms in different regions of North America. The book covers pasture requirements specific to organic farming, but will be of use to both organic and non-organic farms.
Further Reading ▷ The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution by Andrew Mefferd ▷ Essential Composting Toilets by Gord ... Ann Baird ▷ Essential Rainwater Harvesting by Rob Avis & Michelle Avis ▷ Horse-Powered Farming in the 21st Century ...
Author: Kirsten Lie-Nielsen
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 9781771422802
Category: House & Home
Page: 192
View: 236
The “look before you leap” guide to the joys and pitfalls of the rural good life. Dreams of self-sufficiency, independence, and tranquility continue to pull in a new generation of modern homesteaders. While growing your own food and being in charge of your life is the source of much satisfaction, there are many challenges to living away from modern conveniences. Written by an experienced modern homesteader who successfully made the leap, So You Want to Be a Modern Homesteader? offers an in-depth examination of what you need to consider before moving “back to the land.” Drawing from a deep well of experience, this essential guide covers: Romance versus the reality of rural living Finding the right property Building versus bootstrapping Practical “must-have” skills Earning and income and farming on a budget Creating community Seasonal living Children and schooling Social media, the internet and rural life. Whether you are dreaming of moving to the country for peace and an escape from the daily grind, to provide a different lifestyle for your children, or you’re already long-established in the country, this complete and realistic guide is the essential resource to help you achieve success as a modern homesteader.
At the beginning of this century, in spite of the earlier advent of steam-power and the marginal use of the new ... The small farmer, who by virtue of his numbers was still the typical farmer in Britain, kept his horses because he did ...
Author: George Ewart Evans
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571287062
Category: Nature
Page: 246
View: 227
The pioneering oral historian, George Ewart Evans, began to record the farming ways of East Anglia in the 1950s by listening to old men and women whose memories went back more than fifty or sixty years. Many were agricultural labourers, born before the turn of the century, who had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. It was assumed at that time that horses would soon disappear from the farms, and that this was the last chance of recording the part they had played for centuries. It later became clear that this forecast was too pessimistic and in Horse Power and Magic (Faber, 1979) Ewart Evans describes in fascinating detail some important farms where horses continued to be beneficially used more than thirty years later. He discovered that the traditions of the older horsemen had not died out but had been passed on, in only slightly attenuated form, to a younger generation keen to farm with horses, proving that the day of the heavy horse was by no means over. He also describes vividly the ways of horse-tamers whose skills had a touch of 'magic' about them. 'Taking his works a whole, there is no doubt that George Ewart Evans will survive as a fascinating pioneer of the extra-academic recording of human history...he has found a dimension all his own. This is indeed the very stuff of history.' Sunday Times
relative to machinery prices caused rapid conversion from horsepower to mechanical power . population and gross world ... stabilizing at very high levels ( about 15 billion people and $ 300 trillion GWP ) late in the 21st century .
This formed the basis for a horse-dependent American agricultural revolution in the second half of the century. In 1814 Jethro Wood patented an iron plow with interchangeable parts. This replaced the wooden plow American farmers had ...
Author: Jonathan V. Levin
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9781476667133
Category: History
Page: 240
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A century ago, horses were ubiquitous in America. They plowed the fields, transported people and goods within and between cities and herded livestock. About a million of them were shipped overseas to serve in World War I. Equine and related industries employed vast numbers of stable workers, farriers, wainwrights, harness makers and teamsters. Cities were ringed with fodder-producing farmland, and five-story stables occupied prime real estate in Manhattan. Then, in just a few decades, the horses vanished in a wave of emerging technologies. At the same time, those technologies fostered unprecedented economic growth, and with it a culture of recreation and leisure that opened a new place for the horse as an athletic teammate and social companion.
This chapter describes the agricultural , environmental , and social structures that accompanied horse - powered farming on the Great Plains and the transition to tractor - powered farming after the turn of the twentieth century .
Author: Geoff Cunfer
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1585444014
Category: Nature
Page: 292
View: 302
"To support his theory, Cunfer looks at the entire Great Plains (450 counties in ten states), tapping historical agricultural census data paired with GIS mapping to illuminate land use on the Great Plains over 130 years. Coupled with several community and family case studies, this database allows Cunfer to reassess the interaction between farmers and nature in the Great Plains agricultural landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
Photographs and identifying features of essentially all of the types of equipment used in the United States during the early part of the twentieth century are included. Dr. Runyan grew up on a horse powered farm in Oklahoma and before ...
Author: W. R. Runyan
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595152469
Category: History
Page: 116
View: 732
This guide to the identification of old farm equipment has been assembled to help those who have grown up since the horse-to-tractor farming conversion identify the myriad of horse-powered farm implements still to be found. The identification process is simple and quick, and is based on the presence or absence of such readily recognizable features as wheels and teeth. Photographs and identifying features of essentially all of the types of equipment used in the United States during the early part of the twentieth century are included.