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A weekend feature for you - Horses to horsepower

How much has the type of agricultural equipment available to you, determined how you farm? How much did the type of machinery available to your father or grandfather influence the way they farmed?

Obviously, the kind of equipment available to farmers has changed a lot over the decades, and so have general farming practices. But did we change how we farmed and looked for machinery to accommodate those changes, or did the machinery available to us at the time change our methods?

Throughout the last century, a handful of inventors saw a way to do things better, and created machines that could improve farming practices. Then the rest of us changed what we did when those new and innovative machines became available.

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We cover: we are checking in again with our friends Mikey and Kez down there at five tales farm in Australia to see how the season has treated them so far. February is basically their august, so although things are winding down, they’re still cranking and we chat about why they grow what they grow, and they also bring along a surprise topic to ask me at the end.