Farmer’s wife Bernice Ward records her husband Eric and others at work on their farm Thirkleby Warren near the village of West Lutton in North Yorkshire between July and October 1964. Early summer sees grass meadows being cut and dried before being baled, probably for winter feed. In late summer a combine harvester at work reaping a cereal crop before the field is ploughed in readiness for the next season. In a meadow two farmworkers use pitchforks to collect dried grass to make stacks. In...

Farmer’s wife Bernice Ward records her husband Eric and others at work on their farm Thirkleby Warren near the village of West Lutton in North Yorkshire between July and October 1964. Early summer sees grass meadows being cut and dried before being baled, probably for winter feed. In late summer a combine harvester at work reaping a cereal crop before the field is ploughed in readiness for the next season. In a meadow two farmworkers use pitchforks to collect dried grass to make stacks. In another field a worker drives a tractor pulling a baling machine which collects in the dried grass turning them into rectangular bales. In the front garden of the farmhouse a man in a waistcoat and cap work to take care of colourful flowerbeds. In another meadow a farmworker driving a tractor up and down pulling a hay rake which is turning the drying grass. The rake is replaced by a baling machine which turns the now dried grass into rectangular bales. Two workmen look over a second baling machine, it fixed it works to make more bales out of the grass. In the distance a field of sheep changes to another with a combined harvester travelling up and down harvesting a cereal crop, probably wheat. A tractor and tailor follow alongside the harvester with the seed dropping down a chute into the trailer, at the rear the straw being deposited back into the field. In the distance again two fires burning in a field changes to another field where a tractor pulls a plough turning the earth in readiness for another crop. The combine harvester is driven along a lane into the farmyard while back in the field a second tractor pulls a hoe across the recently ploughed soil. A tractor pulls a wagon through a field of hay bales, at the front a conveyor which lifts the bales onto the wagon where it is moved by a farmworker. As the tractor drives around the field the height of the bales on the wagon increases, the farmworker moving around the wagon accordingly. In another field a tractor with large forks attached to the front drives through a large pile of straw. A second tractor drives through a field pulling a devise which only ploughs the top surface of the field. The film ends on the tractor moving the straw again, this time moving it away from one large pile into smaller ones which are then set alight and burned.