Horses Working the Farm

I actually live in an area where there are still a lot of horses, but the horses that we typically see are horses that are raised to be racing horses because a racing horse is much more valuable than a plow horse. With that said, I do believe that there are definitely still pockets of people in Kentucky and also in New England that do still use horses to plow. The reason that I believe this to be the case is because of the fact there are still large Amish populations in those areas.

So true! Sometimes technology seems to muscle out the human or in this case the animal touch. Things were cared about so much more before the hand of technology grab ahold of the world we use to have.

When I was a boy, our next door neighbor plowed a steep side hill behind his barn with his team of horses. Once when I was walking home from school I stopped to watch.At that time he asked if I'd like to plow a furrow across the field and back with the single plow. Of course I accepted, and he showed me how to tie the lines behind my back while grasping the handles of the plow with both hands. The horses were well trained and knew where to go. It wasn't as easy as it looked and my biggest problem was to steer the plow,and keep it in deep enough but not too deep while at the same time turn a furrow which was the right width. Of course I made a big mess of it and the neighbor laughed so hard he almost fell over. However I'm sure that plowing with horses is not a lost art (at least here in Canada) because in the Fall of each year there are many plowing matches where farmers compete to find the best plowman with both horses and tractors.

This is true in many large agricultural countries. But many places still use animals to plow the fields. Poorer countries where machines are to expensive for the small farmers to have. Horses are rarely used however. Oxen, donkeys and sometimes mules are more often seen in front of a plow.

That is so true! IThe use of horses in farming is a lost art! The only people who still use horse and mules in farm work are the Amish people. My dad is 88 and he grew up on the farm with horses doing the field work when he was young. Tractors did not take over the horses until the 1950's on the farms. Technonoly has taken over farming. Not just in the fields.In milk production,the size of farms and the raising of animals for food for examples! I wish we could go back to the days of the horses! I am a horse lover and I can dream!

It is not lost in many Amish communities around the world. They still do use horses to farm. We need to use technology in order to feed the millions of people around the world. Land is not as plentiful as it once was and we have to use it carefully to support the people of the world.

Here in UK, some still plough with horses, though not commercially as far as I am aware and it is a rare old sight to see the heavy horses working all the best urban

I know, we used to use bullocks to make our fields to plant rice. I was a kid then. Now all machines in the fields. And most of all there is hardly fields left in our area. all houses are come. I really loved planting rice in the rainy season. I have seen all in my life, even worked in sugarcane plantation. I have some very beautiful memories of my childhood. thanks for sharing. have a wonderful day.

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