Beasts of burden returning as farms spurn diesel fuel
By Tess Taylor | New York Times | Updated: 2011-05-22 08:29
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As fuel prices rise, farms are using draft animals again. Drew Conroy has written a guide to working with oxen. Jennifer May for The New York Times |
SHEFFIELD, Massachusetts - On a sunny Sunday just before the vernal equinox, while many farms were oiling and gassing up tractors, Rich Ciotola was setting out to prepare a pasture using a tool so old it seems almost revolutionary: a team of oxen.
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