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Horse-and-plow farming makes comeback in U.S.

by Pat Coate | June 12, 2005

Sisters, OR - If the thought of a farmer patiently working his field behind a plow and horses floods you with pangs of nostalgia, take heart.

Ol' Dobbin hasn't run the tractors out of the fields yet, but increasingly, owners of small farmers are finding horse-powered agriculture to be a workable option to mechanization, financially and in other ways.

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