Farming History DVD: FARMING IN FATHER'S DAY

DVD: FARMING IN FATHER'S DAY\n\nA family farm, on the Fenland border of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, was a busy place in the 1940s and 50s. The farmer back then was an enthusiastic user of new machinery, including an International tractor bought in 1928 and a Cockshutt combine acquired in 1947, but he was also a great fan of heavy horses, particularly the traditional East Anglian breed, the Suffolk Punch.\n\nFortunately for history and for us, he was also a keen cameraman, who filmed life and work on the farm. With the help of his sons, who farm on the same land today, this film shows their farther's farm at a crucial stage in its history.\n\nGangs of men and women are seen hard at work in the fields, doing jobs that have long since been mechanised. Horses are still plentiful. and a steam threshing set was hard at work, but Farmall tractors, IH crawlers and the combines are gradually taking over. The cropping included gain for sale and to feed the livestock, beet, peas and .