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Farming the land modern farmers and their machines jerry bushey lerner publishing group 1988 juvenile nonfiction 39 pages 0 reviews discusses modern farming methods from plowing and disking to the harvest and the machines used to accomplish these jobs from inside the book what people are saying write a review. The concept of the farm one of the more popular agricultural reality tv shows globally involves a group of d list celebrities who typically have no experience pulling weeds or mucking out goat pens thrown together with the goal of producing a harvest while avoiding the chaos that can so easily consume any agricultural enterprise each week someone gets voted off by viewers. Classification of farm equipment there is a wide range of agricultural equipment that are used in todays farming in general these implements can be divided into five main categories based on their functions irrigation machinery these types of equipment are used for watering crops on large farms they usually include central pivot . Before tractors farmers worked their fields by relying on their own strength or that of oxen horses and mules the advent of the first portable steam engines ushered farming into the modern age by the 1870s self propelled steam engines were being used in americas heartland to help harvest wheat. This is a job for a farm jack farm jacks are an old school tool that really performs well at a whole lot of jobs like lifting squeezing pushing and pulling objects using a farm jack and short length of chain or a t post attachment you can easily pluck stubborn t posts out of the ground as i said the farm jack has a few tricks up its sleeves