This page describes the Land management on Ragnabo Farm in a historical view:
As we know the arable land of Ragnabo in the early days was used for grassland and pasture for the cattle. Smaller and elevated fields were also used as cultivated land to grow vegetables for the household. Typical field names, such as "Oxgärdet" (Oxe-field), reveal that cattle, like cows and oxes were used. Oxes were probable also in addition to horses as driving force for agricultural implements. Other fields have got their names based on the usage, the owner or other typical field properties. Some examples of names are given below:
"Södra hagen" (South-wooded-pasture)
"Storängen" (Big-meadow)
"Änggärde" (Meadow-field)
"Madlyckeskiftet" (Marsh-field)
"Tomtskiften" (Farm-yard)

Some fields have got their names because of the procedure of 'burning up' forest land for creating new arable land. The Swedish old word "Rödsel", locally "Rössel" or "Rössle" meant an area that originated from burning up land. Quite often the old land was of marsh type (wetland) but with the increasing knowledge on how to drain the land, this was not a problem for crop production anymore. Some examples of land names:
"Rössleäng" (Rössle-meadow)
"Rösslehage" (Rössle-wooded-pasture)
"Rössleåker" (Rössle-acre)
"Rösslebacke" (Rössle-hill)

The pathway to the above fields was consequently named "Rösslegatan" (Rössle-path). Field, field names, paths and houses are shown in  Map 1874 (Google Map) and LM History 1874 (slide pdf).

Fields that were experienced no use was named "Wrak åker" (Waste land), because of too many unmanageable field rocks or other obstacles.
The old names as above are no longer in use. Today names now mirrors the present usage and observed characteristics. Same soils is there of course but with a somewhat changed infrastructure. The heritage can however be seen clearly today as well as the field naming tells us how the land was used and cultivated.
When the agriculture machine revolution took place in the beginning of decade 1950 it was not practical to have any open ditches on arable land as they were seen as farming obstacles for machine driving. Fields needs to be large and rectangular with square corners with long strips as possible. A triangular field will require more energy and time per hectare for tilling and harvesting compared to rectangular. Also wide machines and tractors do not operate well on triangular fields either. Therefore field borders were straightened out. Also stone strings (stone barriers) were removed of same reason. As can be seen in maps from 1981 almost all obstacles are gone and ditches are replaced with drain systems that are sub-surfaced. This way larger but fewer fields were created.