All this made farming an individualistic practice: a farmer could live alone with his plough, oxen and land. But the wet-clay mouldboard plough required a team of eight oxen - or better ...

Marking the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas and dating back to the fifteenth century, Plough Monday, the first Monday ...

He still sets the plough - but he only has to press a button ... "There were men and women with different ploughs, some measuring the land in a way we just don't anymore. "It made me think ...