G'day from Australia.

During Covid 19 restrictions when contact sport such as Australian Rules football has been banned, the local twice weekly newspaper was looking for content to keep the paper going. Quite a few small country papers have been forced to close, as local sport was a major portion of their 'news'.

Some time back I journalled the change in grain growing over my 54 years of active farming, and the local newspaper editor asked me to contribute same in small 'slabs'.

Dealing with the changes from horses being the pulling power - only 20 years before I left school in 1960 - to todays huge articulated tractors and airseeders, I have supplied photos relevant to my articles if I could find any.

The photo is of a 14 row drill, horse drawn, used to sow wheat, barley or oats with a separate box for fertiliser. We had one of equivalent size about the time I left school.

My question for NAT'ers. 

Were similar machines used to plant crops in the US?

(Sun 14 row seed drill (full).jpg)

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