Tag: farming

  • Aerating Manure

    Aerating Manure

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Today I saw a strange machine so I stopped to watch it in action. It went over a pile of manure and flipped it around to get air through the pile to help with the forming of fresh manure to spread on fields shortly. Before going over the pile of…

  • The Environmentally Unfriendly Farmer

    The Environmentally Unfriendly Farmer

    Reading Time: 2 minutes For several months I was not bothered by the noise of an environmentally unfriendly farmer. This farmer loves to use a really old tractor. He loves to turn on the engine and let it run for minutes at a time, without moving. It is running now, as he fills the container…

  • Moving Sugar Beet

    Reading Time: 2 minutes For a few weeks you see piles of sugar beet at one end, or another of fields. They stay that way for a while, until it rains for some reason. When it rains those piles of beet are loaded into hundreds of tractor trailer loads and transported to the train yard.…

  • Tudor Monastery Farm – A documentary series

    Reading Time: < 1 minute I took advantage of a rainy day to watch a series of documentaries by the BBC called Tudor Monastery Farm. It is a documentary series where three individuals live the life people would have lived at the relevant time period for a year. During this year they try farming, mining,…