This is a late-model manure spreader. As you pull it through the field with your John Deere tractor, beaters fling the clods to the wind, dispersing them to where they will finish their breakdown into nutrients for this summer's crops.
This modern machine is a fast and efficient way to return natural fertilizer to our fields. It is five times bigger and fifty years newer than our little horse-drawn spreader. Nonetheless, the new kid sits idle while the old man works. And I'm not talking about John.
We have a lot of natural fertilizer around here, and it's going to take a lot of work to whittle this pile away and spread the organic material where summer's crops can use it.
Fortunately, my farmer knows how to turn work into play.
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