A variety of horsepower representing several eras of farming was working in the field Saturday. Ocitber 6th, during the West Kentucky Antique Power Association’s Hal Fennel Plow Day.
Beautiful weather and ideal conditions for breaking the soil brought more than fifty tractors and several horse and mule teams to Cundiff Farms in Trigg County. For the first time in several years horse and mule teams were a part of the days events. Some of the horse and mule teams and their owners traveled from near Gates, Tenneessee, to be a part of the activities.
Tractors plowing during the day ranged from machines built in the late 1940’s to those that were rolled off the assembly line in the early 1970’s. Club member Bob Carrico said more than fifty tractors were a part of the annual parade that kicked off plow day.
Plow day with horse and mule teams and antique tractors allow participants to display and participate in a practice that was common on farms before the invention of no-till farming in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.
Photos and video by Alan Watts
