Tag: agriculture

April 18, 2015 at 11:24 am

Old School Cool: Guy with Giant Scythe Takes on a Brush Cutter

Old School Cool: Guy with Giant Scythe Takes on a Brush Cutter

Apparently the Grim Reaper knows how efficient a scythe can be! This is the annual race between brush cutter and scythe—honours go to the first to cut a stand of grass. This is the British Scythe Champion against an experienced agricultural worker with a three-tine brush cutter, working flat-out. Held at the Annual Green…

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February 27, 2015 at 9:31 am

Picture of the Day: Rice Terraces from Above

Picture of the Day: Rice Terraces from Above

Photograph by Jialiang Gao | http://www.peace-on-earth.org In this breathtaking aerial photograph by Jialiang Gao, we see the amazing terraced rice terraces of Yunnan, China. Yunnan’s Yuanyang County is a popular destination with photographers due to the vast areas of nearby mountains which have been cultivated into terraced rice paddies for at least the past…

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June 5, 2013 at 12:02 pm

Picture of the Day: Rice Terrace Sunset

Picture of the Day: Rice Terrace Sunset

RICE TERRACE SUNSET Photograph by AGUSTIN RAFAEL REYES In this beautiful photograph by Agustin Rafael Reyes, we see the Doya rice terraces at sunset. The terraces are located in Matsuura-shi, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. In agriculture, a terrace is a piece of sloped plane that has been cut into a series of successively…

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