Farming in Father’s Day

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A wonderful glimpse of a style of farming now gone forever, filmed by a farmer who was also a film-maker, with new commentary. A family farm, on the Fenland border of Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, was a busy place in the 1940s and 50s. Gangs 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 is hard at work, but Farmall tractors, IH crawlers and combine harvesters are gradually taking over. The cropping includes grains for sale and for the livestock, beet, peas and potatoes as cash crops, and fodder beet for the Lincoln Red cattle kept on the farm.

• 94 pages
• Illustrated throughout
• Softback book
• 170mm x 240mm