Farm Machines

Machines help farmers do their work.
Tractors do lots of work on a farm.
Big machines cut hay and grain.
Machines milk cows.

The way farmers work is different today from the way they worked a long time ago. There are more machines to do the work so things get done faster. These are some of the machines you might see on a farm.

Tractors do a lot of work on farms.

They carry heavy loads.

Tractors pull the plough through the fields.

This tractor pulls a seed planting machine.

Tractors are used when the farmer sprays the crops to stop bugs eating them.

Machines cut the hay and make bales or rolls of hay.

A harvester cuts the crops when they are ready. The grains are shaken off the stems. The grains pour into a truck and the stems go back onto the ground.

Farmers used to milk their cows twice a day by hand. They squeezed the milk into a bucket.

Now huge machines pump the milk out of the cows' udders while they eat hay in the milking shed. The farmer puts the milkers onto the udders.

On sheep farms, the sheep used to be sheared by men using hand clippers like scissors. Now the clippers are electric.

You can find out more about farm machinery here http://www.kidsfarm.com/equipment.htm

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Thomas, Ron. & Sydenham, Shirley. Farm machines [Online] www.kidcyber.com.au (2009)

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