Title: What happened to haystacks & horses?
Description: "New Zealand agriculture has seen huge changes in the period from the end of WWII to the 2000 Millenium. Mechanisation, new products, new plants and animals, and changing financial fortunes. Technical and management changes on farms and political and economic influences off it. Horses were replaced by tractors and trucks, haystacks by barns and bales. Urban attitiudes to farming changed. However it is still the essential base to our economy and place in the world. Changes in this era of New Zealand farming history are covered in two distinct ways in this book. Part one is the fictional life story of a typical farmer through a career starting as a shepherd in the 1950s and retiring from the farming in the millenium. He was just an ordinary farmer like thousands of others, not especially notable or noteworthy, but who was part of the going platform of the relative prosperity of the period. Part two covers specific changes with snapshots and snippets of many topic areas. These are broadly grouped into main subjects, and also cross-referenced. This is not an exhaustive record but a collection of significant changes that directly and indirectly affected a typical farmer."--Back cover.
Subjects: Agriculture, History, Agricultural innovations, Farm mechanization, Fiction, Economic aspects
Places: New Zealand
Time periods: 20th century