Hundreds of people take part in Landmark Park’s Farm Day

DOTHAN, Ala. ( WDHN ) — Hundreds of people were transported back to the late 1800s at Landmark Park in Dothan, where participants experienced life on a Wiregrass farm.

This all happened during Landmark Park’s annual Farm Day.

People were able to take advantage of live music, wagon rides, plowing with draft animals, modern planting demos, a petting zoo, and old-fashioned games.

Antique tractors were also set up for families to look at.

One of the exhibits there was Jerry Ammons and his 1937 John Deere Hay Press, which was used to compact hay into smaller bales for more efficient storage and transportation.

The process was changed in the 1950s, which is when hay bailer machines began picking up the loose hay in the field and baling it in one process.

“I love to bring it and show it off,” Ammons said. “I can show people how things went back in the day.”

Ammons first got the press to crank in the 1980s and has been showing it off at Farm Day at Landmark Park ever since.

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