“Few rural images are as beloved by artists as grain slowly being hand scythed and stacked but did you ever wonder about the prelude to that bucolic vista at planting time? Just how did those fields of gold get put in without a Deere? Why the answer’s right at the end of your arm. Planting by hand worked for thousands of years and hand casting or spreading seed manually is a method worth having in your bag of farm tricks.”
Cary Rideout educates us on hand-casting grain seed in the September-October 2022 issue of Small Farm Canada, a handy skill that is getting another look.
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