tractoring

Driving farm machinery

Tractoring is operating or driving a tractor, typically in agricultural contexts: He spent the morning tractoring across the north field.

The term also appears in protest contexts where farmers use tractors as a form of demonstration, driving them in convoys or blockading roads: Farmers went tractoring through the capital to demand better prices.

fieldwork

plowing

Turning earth for crops

furrowingCutting narrow trenches
tillingCultivating soil for crops
diskingCultivating with bladed implement

harrowing · sowing · seeding · planting · cultivating · chiseling · rototilling · bedding · ridging · aerating

machinery

implements

Enacts or instruments

attachmentsItems joined to something
hitchTemporary difficulty or snag
drawbarTowing coupling beam

loader · backhoe · bucket · blade · mower · spreader · sprayer · cultivator · baler · tedder

harvesting

combine

Merge, or harvesting machine

threshingExtracting grain from stalks
reapingCutting crops for collection
balingCompressing into tied bundles

silage · swathing · windrow · gathering

rural

farmstead

Farm with residence

countrysideRural area beyond towns
acreageAmount of land owned
pastoralOf countryside or clergy care

agrarian · homestead · barnyard · meadow · pastureland · fallow land · country roads · hedgerows · fence lines · paddock

Opposites

mechanization method

tractoringspading

Turning soil manually

hoeing · manual labor · hand weeding · horse plowing · traditional farming

scale of operation

tractoringgardening

Tending plants recreationally

backyard farming · container gardening · homesteading

activity type

tractoringfallowing

Leaving cropland unplanted

Family

contract, attract, extract, tractor, intact, distract, attraction, subtract, subtraction

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