Discuss: Horse Power
Is the working horse an anachronism or sign of the future? What's right about relying on horses on the farm -- and what's wrong with it? Do you think the horse will once again become a part of American agriculture in a meaningful way? Do you know people who are working with them now on the land? Tell us!
42 comments
41 Ron Catt on Dec 11, 2011
42 Clarence Mower on Apr 09, 2012
I was born in 1931, in SW NY on a combination dairy & truck farm. I lived with my mother & grandfather (born in Sicily), where I lived all of my younger years. I was raised with the daily usage of teams of horses in ALL of the farm work. I remember the old dump rake, the hay loader pulled behind the hay wagon; the riding plow, the horse drawn disk with which we increased its potential by loading large rocks on top of it! These are memories that will stay with me as long as I live! And, oh how I wish I could return to such an environment!! Thanks for reading this!
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Interesting well written article but you are preaching to the choir in this case, thankfully there is a team eating their hay in the pasture. If people would have heeded the voices crying in the wilderness for mixed power farming we would not be in a lot of the mess we are in!