Green Mountain Draft Horse Field Day [SIV233]
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2011
- 7/30/11: The Green Mountain Draft Horse Association presented Draft Horse Field Day at Shelburne Farms on Saturday. Horses, oxen and mules were in attendance for reaping, threshing, and plowing demonstrations.
Visitors hitched rides on wagons to experience Shelburne Farms as it was meant to be seen, from a horse's perspective.
Music: Kevin MacLeod, "Sheep May Safely Graze" - Aria from BWV 208, Johann Sebastian Bach
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www.greenmountaindraft.org/
www.shelburnefarms.org/ - Розваги
I love this so much!! Traditional families working the land. Our country was founded on agriculture. This way of life holds families together. There is pride in hard work. Disconnected from this bleeping Hi-tech I-phone world. When it all comes crashing down, we will be so dependent on the ever humble & hard working farmer, that works the land for our sustenance. God bless you all!
This is wonderful. I wish every school kid in America had the opportunity to see this. It would bring history to life and they would be able to see and feel what it was like instead of just reading about it or seeing a picture. It would definitely be remembered!
I sure hope they do this again next September. I haven't been in the state long enough to see one yet.
Lovely. Kids on drafts so cute too! Hello from Ottawa, Canada!
Hello back from Vermont, 8 years later! :)
Beautiful horses, oxen and mules.. who doesn't love animals?
Teamsters rock!!!! What a lovely event. Hi Marshall!
I just love it! Great job - Beautiful Vt.
BRAVO! The future. Horses are God. Machines quite the opposite.
Wow 10 years later
That went by quickly! Were you there that day Rivan?
I really love these horses. I can see this type of farming in the near future. It may take longer, it would be worth it. I like watching : Introduction to draft animal power and A m ish Farming, Sustainable Agriculture.
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Well now I have something else to add to my 'need to attend' list lol!
Great job
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I remember when.........
I'd like to work there! God bless Yuo!
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As much as I love to see this happening, not all of us have the finances behind us to be able to afford to farm this way!! wish finances didn't matter s much.
Mopar Maniac 64 Heringen
Heringen?? WTF? Bob Dole as well!@@walterschimmelpfennig5434
From the research I've done on the subject, there seems to be a sweet spot where draft animals are financially viable. If your farm is smaller than 10 acres or if you have several hundred acres, then it makes sense to use tractors and other gas-powered machinery. However, if your farm is somewhere between 10 to 50 acres, then draft animals are actually cheaper in the long run than tractors. I've even seen some people turn a profit with draft animals on farms as large as 80 acres, though they tend to have other means of income than just growing crops (logging, syrup tapping, goats, sheep, etc.).
En que parte del.mundo es eso ?
I came to see the HORSES, not to see or hear people talk about horses, nor to see the icons and logos.
What the hell are you talking about?? These are people dedicated to generations of farming & traditional values, and, God forbid MAKING A LIVING! Not getting rich. Not lying and obfuscating the public. If you want to know about Bleeping horses, go to some equestrian channel.
They talk about small farms being worked with horses. Five acres won't support the horses it takes to work it. Thats why farms got bigger... My Grandfather farmed over 1.000 acres in North Dakota with horses and went broke....
+Wilbur Finnigan That doesn't mean everyone will… Grandpa could have been bad with money.
Flashlax19 Nope !!! He also like all other farmers have to fight the WEATHER...drought of the 20's run him off the farm...no rain and lots of wind does not a farm make !!! The problem with horse farming is it takes too much land to just support the horses, taking that land effectively out of "Income producing" , and the more horses you have the more land you need..it is/was a delicate balance.
+Wilbur Finnigan the more horses they had, the more land they needed, the more help they had to hire, the more cows they had to raise or buy to milk for money milk, it was a never ending circle, it all sounds romantic, exciting and fun today, but it wasn't then. even today, with A small homestead , one person would have to work out just to pay land and school taxes
dave12546 he and Grandmother raised 9 kids so there was a lot of help. They raised their food and raised their meat, was always plenty of food but money was short, their cash crops were grains and extra hay. but a very hard life..
over 50 yrs ago it was possible, long before big government and high taxes, rules and regulations