A guy down the road from me uses 12, side by side ( single
row) for plowing. Looks cool!


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Scott Vernon
Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_

"katy" wrote in message
...
Scotty wrote:
planting "no-till" corn uses more
fuel than most folk
can imagine. The exact figures escape me but maybe one
of
y'all know. Also,
farming is about as dangerous as mining.


They use pull horses around here. Only pollution from
them
is recycled into fertilizer.


--
Scott Vernon
Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_


They did a study of the Amish farmers in the southern
Michigan and
northern Indiana area and found that for small farms,
those under
300 acres, that Belgian horses were more efficient than
tractors.
One of the factors was that a horses weight on the soil
does not rip
it up like the heavy tread of a tractor.