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Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Oxen power returns to small farms.

Ramana very kindly sent me this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/dining/04oxen.html?pagewanted=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha210

I read a while back that small farms in England are going back to using horses & oxen instead of tractors. Now it seems that fuel prices have gone so high in America that it is less expensive to feed oxen than it is to run a tractor, so small farms in the US are also returning to oxen power.