The following question was presented:
I'd like to offer thanks to “Progressive Farmer” for this week's vote question (much along the lines of “Have I Got News For You”) as I ended up on their website when I was researching top 10 lists. Unfortunately they didn't have anything that captured my imagination, so I thought I'd help them out by running a vote question for them to ask the most essential of all agricultural questions - What's your favorite farming implement?
Results:
Tractor, Muck/Fertilizer Spreader and Seed Drill tied with 30% of the votes each from the following selection:
- Tractor (30%)
- Combine Harvester (0%)
- Baler (10%)
- Rototiller (0%)
- Muck/Fertilizer Spreader (30%)
- Plough (0%)
- Seed Drill (30%)
Graphic of Results:
Analysis:
A well participated vote and yet again another undecided topic as we continue along the path of proving nothing. Now, to shed a little light on this subject for those city folk that are reading this. As you may or may not know I grew up in a small village with a population of about 100. What this means is that I got pretty close to this farming thing. Anyway, there's a couple of pastimes that are little known - and if you've hardly been out of the city, you may not appreciate these planned activities.
The first is to wait in a field gate until you see someone speeding down the road who looks in a rush and pull out in your tractor or combine harvester. A firm favorite amongs the yokels. More common with a tractor which may account for its popularity in the vote.
The next is to do the same, but with an expensive car when you've got the muck spreader on the back. The great thing about the muck spreader is it does just that so as you're applying it in the field, the muck (aka poo) goes all over the tractor. When you first pull onto the road, you can get a pretty good poo flick going if you stick your foot down for the first few hundred yards. And what's more, the smell off the back of this thing is so bad it's untrue. (Bonus points if you manage to get a convertible). Presumably this accounts for the popularity of the muck spreader vote.
I have no idea why the seed drill was popular. Very useful in that seed planting kind of way, but I'm not aware of any other features or uses for this particular farm implement.