October Activity of the Month: Ploughing

From left to right, top to bottom:

• A member of the Women’s Land Army is trained in the traditional horse-drawn method of ploughing at the WLA training centre at Cannington in Somerset, c 1940. Source: IWM
• Land Girl Ploughing. Source: Cherish Watton
• Ploughing up arable fields at Colmworth. Source: Stuart Antrobus.
• Land girl wearing tin helmet while ploughing – south-east of England. Source: Stuart Antrobus
• A Land Army girl using a tractor to plough a field at the Agricultural College at Cannington. Source: IWM
  

Farming activities included:

• Ewes dipped and wool clipped around tail, ready for tupping to begin [Mating time]
• Unfinished wether lambs sold as stores or brought inside for further fattening House feeding cattle
• Wean and house calves
• Cultivate arable fields
• Drill winter wheat
• Harvest potatoes
• Harvest sugar beet

Source: Farm Direct.co.uk