These days it's comparatively easy thanks to modern technology, with tractors, ploughs, machines for milking, threshing, bailing and harvesting.

最近一些时候，务农比较容易了，这多亏了现代技术，有拖拉机、犁铧、挤奶机、脱粒机、抽水机和收割机。

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But while his father did contract work for fell farmers round Hesket Newmarket in Cumbria with lime-spreaders and threshing machines, Edward, at 14, was on a JCB planting signs on the new M6.

ECONOMIST: Edward Stobart