Farming tools

right|thumb|upright=1.35|Traditional ploughing: a farmer works the land with horses and plough thumb|Water buffalo used for ploughing in [[Laos]] A plough or plow () (both pronounced ) is a farm tool for loosening or turning soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern ploughs are drawn by tractors. A plough may have a wooden, iron or steel frame with a blade attached to cut and loosen the soil. It has been fundamental to farming for most of history. The earliest ploughs had no wheels; such a plough was known to the Romans as an aratrum. C

thumb|240px|One of 12 roundels depicting the "Labours of the Months" (1450–1475) A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting or reaping grain crops, or cutting succulent forage chiefly for feeding livestock. Falx was a synonym, but was later used to mean any of a number of tools that had a curved blade that was sharp on the inside edge.

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upright=1.35|thumb|Pitching hay

The goad is a traditional farming implement, used to spur or guide livestock, usually oxen, which are pulling a plow or a cart; used also to round up cattle. It is a type of long stick with a pointed end, also known as the cattle prod.

hooked walking stick used by shepherds

thumb|right|A straight dibber

device used for stunning animals before slaughter

ring made of metal designed to be installed through the nasal septum of an animal

thumb|A broadfork thumb|A broadfork being levered