Farm Equipment

It’s fall. Farmers are busy harvesting their crops. Let’s take a look at the equipment they use.

Tractors are big machines. They often move other machines around the farm. Before tractors, farmers relied on horses or oxen.

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It’s fall. Farmers are busy harvesting their crops. Let’s take a look at the equipment they use.

Plows are machines that tractors pull. They break up soil. This helps farmers plant new seeds.

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It’s fall. Farmers are busy harvesting their crops. Let’s take a look at the equipment they use.

Farmers used to have to cut their crops. Then they removed seeds with their hands. Now, a machine called a combine harvester does that work. It can harvest seeds much faster than a person.

What Do You Think?  How do these machines make farming easier? What other things happen on a farm?

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