Present-Day Canadian Farming
Ploughing
A combine uses metal blades to break up the soil, driven by a farmer
Seeding
Spreading seeds over a relatively large area by attaching them to the back of a tractor
Processing (Threshing, winnowing)
Processing machinery is used
Caring for Crops (weeding, fertilizer, pest control)
Ariel Application - now what is commonly used for what was formerly known as crop dusting - spraying crops with crop protection products from an agricultural aircraft
Rotating Crops - different crops are planted in a regular sequence so that a crop that leaches the soil of one kind of nutrient is followed during the next growing season by a crop that returns that nutrient to the soil
Using manure as a fertilizer to help crops grow
Weeding by using herbicides - chemicals that kill or alter the growth of weeds
Harvesting
A combine is used to cut crops