Ernie Janes / Farmer changing plough shears on plough, Hertfordshire, UK

Heather Angel / Chinese farmer wearing traditional bamboo hat ploughing flooded Rice (Oryza sativa) paddy with Water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). Xingping, Nr Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. October 19...

Ashley Cooper / Snow plough on Dunmail Raise, Lake District, England, UK. December 2010

Ashley Cooper / Colourful wind turbines in polders, reclaimed land near Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands. May 2013

Ashley Cooper / Aerial view of farmers working in fields during severe drought, Shanxi province, China. March 2009.

Pascal Tordeux / Tractor ploughing field, Pleine Selve, Picardy, France, October 2016.

David Noton / Farmers ploughing a rice paddy nearr Phong Nha, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam, January 2015.

David Noton / Woman ploughing a rice paddy nr Phong Nha, Qu?ng Bình Province, Vietnam, January 2015.

David Noton / Man ploughing a rice paddy near Phong Nha, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam, January.

Kristel Richard / Farmer ploughing field with Dale pony, near Barnard Castle, County Durham, England, UK, July. Critically Endangered breed.

Nick Upton / Royal Agricultural University students and gamekeeper Phil Holborrow planting a hedge in a groove cut by a tractor to provide cover for Tree Sparrows (Passer montanus) and other farmland birds as part...

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Wheat (Triticum sp) plowed fields, Idaho

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Potato (Solanum tuberosum) plowed fields, Idaho

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Wheat (Triticum sp) field being plowed, Idaho

Sven Zacek / Aerial view of a tractor ploughing, Vooremaa Landscape Reserve, Tartumaa, Estonia, October 2013.

Ernie Janes / Tractor ploughing fields in spring near Salthouse with Sherringham Shoal wind farm in the background, Norfolk, England, UK, March 2015.

Gary K. Smith / Valtra T 163 tractor ploughing in wheat stubble, Norfolk, UK. January 2015.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Lozi men loughing with cattle, Lozi People, Sioma Nqwezi Park, Zambia. November 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Cattle used by Lozi people to plough, Sioma Nqwezi Park, Zambia. November 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Cattle used by Lozi people to plough, Sioma Nqwezi Park, Zambia. November 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Lozi men ploughing with cattle, Lozi People, Sioma Nqwezi Park, Zambia. November 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Lozi man leading cattle for ploughing, Sioma Nqwezi Park, Zambia. November 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Lozi village, with huts and men leading cattle for ploughing, Sioma Nqwezi Park, Zambia. November 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Lozi village, with huts and men leading cattle for ploughing, Sioma Nqwezi Park, Zambia. November 2010.

Steve O. Taylor (GHF) / Cattle team, Sioma Nqwezi Park, Zambia. November 2010.

Kirkendall-Spring / Farmer plowing field with oxen and woden plow, Paro River Valley. Bhutan, October 2014.

Ernie Janes / Tractor ploughing near Weybourne with gulls (Laridae) following, Norfolk, East Anglia, England, UK, January.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Man ploughing the ground with two oxen. Ghandruk Village (at 1990m). Annapurna Sanctuary, central Nepal, November 2011.

Nick Upton / Mixed flock of Herring gulls (Larus argentatus) and Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) following a tractor ploughing a clifftop field with the sea in the background, Trebetherick, Cornwall, UK, April.

Colin Monteath / Domestic Cattle (Bos taurus) pulling plough in rice paddy, Bali, Indonesia

Nick Upton / Mixed flock of Herring gulls (Larus argentatus) and Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) following a tractor ploughing a clifftop field with the sea in the background, Trebetherick, Cornwall, UK, April.

Ernie Janes / Tractor ploughing cereal fields in dry conditions, East Runton, Norfolk, April 2013

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Josa Maria Fela­x, 89 years old, ploughing with his donkey, Faia Brava and Coa valley Archaeological park, Portugal, May 2011

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Josa Maria Fela­x, 89 years old, ploughing with his donkey, Faia Brava and Coa valley Archaeological park, Portugal, May 2011

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Josa Maria Fela­x, 89 years old, ploughing with his donkey, Faia Brava and Coa valley Archaeological park, Portugal, May 2011

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Josa Maria Fela­x, 89 years old, ploughing with his donkey, Faia Brava and Coa valley Archaeological park, Portugal, May 2011

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Josa Maria Fela­x, 89 years old, ploughing with his donkey, Faia Brava and Coa valley Archaeological park, Portugal, May 2011

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Josa Maria Fela­x, 89 years old, ploughing with his donkey, Faia Brava and Coa valley Archaeological park, Portugal, May 2011

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Josa Maria Fela­x, 89 years old, ploughing with his donkey, Faia Brava and Coa valley Archaeological park, Portugal, May 2011

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Josa Maria Fela­x, 89 years old, ploughing with his donkey, Faia Brava and Coa valley Archaeological park, Portugal, May 2011

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Josa Maria Fela­x, 89 years old, ploughing with his donkey, Faia Brava and Coa valley Archaeological park, Portugal, May 2011

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Aerial image of farm machinery working intensively cultivated farmland, Salamanca Region, Castilla y Leon, Spain, May 2011

David Noton / Traditional ox-driven plough near Chincherro, near Cusco, Peru. November 2005.

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Tractor ploughing, followed by gulls, seen from the air. Abbotts Hall Farm, Essex, UK, March 2012.

David Tipling / 2020VISION / Lapwings (Vanellus vanellus) on arable fenland, feeding on recently ploughed field, Cambridgeshire Fens, UK, December

Philip Stephen / Fishing vessel "Harvester" ploughing through a wave, North Sea, May 2010.

Philip Stephen / Fishing vessel "Harvester" ploughing through a wave, North Sea, May 2010.

Robin Chittenden / Traditional Horse ploughing, Gressenhall, Norfolk, UK, March 2010

Robin Chittenden / Traditional Horse ploughing, Gressenhall, Norfolk, UK, March 2010

Florian Möllers / Chinese farmer ploughing his field with two Oxen (Bos indicus). Zhouzhi Nature Reserve, Shaanxi, China, October.

Ernie Janes / Silhouette of tractor ploughing at sunset with gulls following the plough, Norfolk, UK, February

Ernie Janes / Tractor autumn ploughing an arable field near Wells, Norfolk, UK with marshes in the background and flock of gulls overhead, March

Ernie Janes / Tractor ploughing in large arable field, Baldock, Hertfordshire, UK

Ernie Janes / Black headed gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) following tractor ploughing stubble, Langham, Norfolk, UK, Winter

Ernie Janes / Aerial view of tractor ploughing in large arable fields near the coast, Weybourne, Norfolk, UK, March

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Tractor ploughing machair, RSPB Balranald reserve, North Uist, Western Isles / Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK, May 2011

Gary K. Smith / Flock of Gulls (Larus argentatus) following a ploughing tractor. Norfolk, UK, March.

Gary K. Smith / Flock of Gulls (Larus argentatus) following a ploughing tractor. Norfolk, UK, March.

Gary K. Smith / Flock of Gulls (Larus argentatus) following a ploughing tractor. Norfolk, UK, March.

Ernie Janes / Man disc harrowing field with a pair of Shire Horses, UK

Ernie Janes / Man seated on harrow behind a pair of Shire Horses, UK

Ernie Janes / Gulls following tractor ploughing, Norfolk, UK, autumn

Colin Monteath / Domestic Horse (Equus caballus) Clydesdale breed ploughing field, Erewhon Station, Rangitata River Valley, Canterbury, New Zealand

Ernie Janes / Large flock of Seagulls following a tractor ploughing, Upper Gade Valley, Chilterns, Hertfordshire, UK, autumn

Florian Möllers / Chinese farmer ploughing corn field with two oxen, Zhouzhi Nature Reserve, Qinling mountains, Shaanxi, China, April 2006

Florian Möllers / Chinese farmer ploughing corn field with two oxen, Zhouzhi Nature Reserve, Qinling mountains, Shaanxi, China, April 2006

Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Heavy horses, UK, July 2008

Ernie Janes / Plough pulled by a pair of Heavy horses, UK, July 2009

Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Heavy horses, UK, July 2008

Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Heavy shire horses, UK, July 2008

Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Suffolk Punch Heavy horses, UK, September 2008

Ernie Janes / Ploughing with a pair of Ardennes heavy horses, UK

Ernie Janes / Harrow pulled by a pair of working Shire Horses, UK, July 2007

Ernie Janes / A pair of Ardennes heavy horses harnessed for ploughing, UK, July 2007

Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Suffolk Punch Heavy horses, UK, September 2008

Ernie Janes / Farmer on a disc harrow pulled by a pair of Shire horses, UK, July 2009

Ernie Janes / Plough pulled by a pair of Heavy horses, UK, July 2009

Ernie Janes / Man with working Shire horses, UK, July 2007

Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Heavy shire horses, UK, July 2008

Ernie Janes / Working Shire horse, portrait, UK, July 2007

Ernie Janes / Working Shire horse, portrait, UK, July 2007

Ernie Janes / Working Shire horse, portrait, UK, July 2007

Ernie Janes / Farmer ploughing with a pair of Heavy shire horses, UK, September 2008

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Snow plough clearing road between Murmansk and Nikel. Kola Peninsula, Northwest Russia, 2005.

David Kjaer / Mixed flock of Gulls following a ploughing tractor, in a field, Wiltshire, England, UK, March 2010.

David Kjaer / Mixed flock of Gulls following a ploughing tractor, in a field, Wiltshire, England, UK, March 2010

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Ploughed wheat fields after harvest in autumn, Palouse Hills, Washington

David Woodfall / Ploughing rice paddies prior to planting, traditional agriculture, peasant management of land, Ganges delta, Bangladesh, July 2008

Eric Baccega / Tractor ploughing field, with flock of gulls following, Ouessant Island, Bretagne, France

Inaki Relanzon / Aerial view of Cattle working in rice fields, near Tana, Madagascar. November 2008

Bernard Castelein / Man taking a break from ploughing with cattle, Melamchi bazar, Helambu region, Nepal, November 2009

Bernard Castelein / Man ploughing using cattle and traditional methods, Melamchi bazar, Helambu region, Nepal, November 2009

Laurie Campbell / Gulls following plough, Berwickshire, Scotland, November

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Harvested and freshly ploughed wheat fields, Palouse Hills, Washington

Gary K. Smith / Tractor with combined plough and disc harrow on coastal farmland with Cley windmill in distance, Weybourne, Norfolk, UK, October,

Juergen Freund / Farmer and his trusted carabao (water buffalo) ploughing the fields to prepare it for planting rice, Camarines Sur, Luzon, Philippines 2008