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Harvesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va1mt7Maix8

A combine is used to cut crops

Caring for Crops (weeding, fertilizer, pest control)

Weeding by using herbicides - chemicals that kill or alter the growth of weeds

Using manure as a fertilizer to help crops grow

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L57-98uZoJ8

Processing (Threshing, winnowing)

Processing machinery is used

Seeding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG79HjxeT4A

Spreading seeds over a relatively large area by attaching them to the back of a tractor

Ploughing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNcRoi7UF1o

A combine uses metal blades to break up the soil, driven by a farmer