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LOGAN, Utah (AP) -- Cache County farmer LaMar Ashby isn't worried about the impact of rising fuel prices on his family farm.
His tractors don't run on diesel; they run on hay.
Kate and Anne, two 7-year-old Belgian draft horses, plow the fields for planting, do the harrowing, side-raking and haul the Ashby's alfalfa, hay and wheat crops.
Ashby ditched machinery for horse power when he started farming more than 20 years ago. He says they remind him of working the fields as a young boy.
He says working the fields with a pair of draft horses doesn't take much longer than using a tractor. Kate and Anne need about two hours to rake a 12-acre field.
Kate and Anne are the third team of working horses Ashby has used on the farm.
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Information from: The Herald Journal
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