I started plowing with a team when I was around ten years old. I believe it was about 1938. We had horses first and later Pop (Dad) purchased a team of mules. Molly was the name of the mare that we ...

COLFAX — Harvest time in Eastern Washington usually brings out tractors, trucks and other modern machinery as farmers bring in their crops. But on one parcel of farmland, plowing, planting and ...

COLUMBIA — The horses panted as they pulled an old-fashioned steel plow through the muddy earth. "Whoas" and "haws" came from their drivers, who pulled the reins of draft horses and mules as they ...

WHEN: April 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Saunderskill Farm, 5100 Route 209, Accord DETAILS: The Hudson Valley Draft Horse Association will hold its annual Spring Plow. Plowing will be done with ...

Farmers in the 18th century may not have had to worry about tractor repairs, but there is one factor they had to consider that modern farmers don’t have to worry about: mule temperament. Terri Penick, ...

VIOLA, Minn. — Harnesses jiggled as the horses and mules pulled antique plows through the field. The horses strained as their owners urged them forward, first plowing a row, the plowing up one side ...

‘Pete,’ the mule, and ‘Belle,’ the draft horse, are driven by Jessica Bass and Adam McGrath. ENTERPRISE — The rich, black sod peeled away like chocolate curls as the mule teams pulled the sharp plows ...

The plow cuts into the earth, turning soil that is the same deep brown hue as the giant horses pulling the antique farm machinery. "Haw," calls out Maddie Schill, and the team of Brabant draft horses, ...

Dave Heisler holds on to his leather reigns as he leads his two horses, Doc and Bud, as he plows the field near Horseshoe Pond in Concord on Saturday, April 16, 2022. Credit: GEOFF FORESTER—Monitor ...

Harvest time in eastern Washington usually brings out tractors, trucks and other modern machinery as farmers bring in their crops. But on one parcel of farmland, plowing, planting and harvesting is ...

COLFAX, Wash. (AP) - The work of plowing, planting, and harvesting is still done the old-fashioned way with teams of draft horses and mules on a parcel of farmland in eastern Washington. On Labor Day, ...

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