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Ploughing with horses

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A Canterbury farmer was still using his team of horses to plough his land for wheat in 1953.

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Reference: Pictorial Parade 14. National Film Unit, 1953

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Emma Meyer, Horses – Horses and farming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/19275/ploughing-with-horses (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Emma Meyer, published 1 March 2009.