If you want to get technical, most ranch barns are 1-1 1/2 story affairs designed for ranging stock and horses and limited fodder storage. Sort of like a beefed up loafing shed with maybe a crib, with the odd horse barn exception. Lofts are linked with dairy barns and mixed use designs like 3-Bay English, Dutch, and Bank Barns. A Dutch type barn is pretty Germanic in style, with the roof nearly reaching the ground, much like the thatched hall. 
France near the German border most likely.
Northern France and the Low Countries -> 
I've got pics of these from Belgium from my trip in '03. They're at my sister's though at the moment. They still work horses in a lot of instances.
Crop-wise wheat and oats followed by hay and barley would be most common. Hay is either left in a stack or lofted. This can be in its loose form or baled. The modern baler has only existed since Power Take Off for the tractor. The binder or a hay press was much, much older. The box binder that used twine pre-dates the American Civil War. The kind that used wire was used several years before that and willow canes and ash bark strips predate that by at least a couple decades. Horses brought the dried hay in by wagon. It was forked into the box. when the chute was filled, the plate was placed on the top and then winched tighter and tighter until compress. The retension material of choice was fed through the holes and channels and tied. Baling is a space saver.
You have the horse-drawn plow.
You then sow a field. You can do it by hand. We still sow the hay field by hand, walking it on foot. The next update is a grain drill which is drawn by horses or oxen.
Hoes and rakes are pretty old tools. Wood rakes saw some more recent use. The wood teeth are a little fragile in some situations but for light work they are lighter to use. Scythes, sickles, and cradles are your grain harvesters of yorn. Mechanical, drawn reapers date to the early 1800's.
Storing grain is a tricky affair. It has to dry, but it draws vermin and is easily lost. It has to be threshed and winnowed, dryed, and stored. Threshing is very labor intensive and takes a lot of people. Hence the phrase "Feeding you is like feeding a threshing crew."
Horse drawn, slip scoops were used for a very long time. I know of a hospital's basement being dug by slip scoop in the 1920's still.
Small fields= small equipment, mostly horse drawn. It's simply good sense. That's why my grandfather kept horse-drawn equipment to use if need be and his "big" equipment was a Ferguson 30 dating from the early 1950's even in the '70s. That's what we still use. I think the Fergie still's the most modern piece of farm equipment we own if you ignore lawn mowers. We CAN'T use implements over 4 ft in most types. The Ferg can't take it. Makes equipment and part buying a trick though sometimes cheap since no one really wants them anymore! Cheaper and easier to get fuel for a team.
Rich- What are you using as definitions of "tool" and "equipment"? I usually consider "equipment" to be anything a single man can't use alone in most cases, like horse or ox drawn items or a binder which can use up to 6 men or so. "Tools" are hoes, rakes, flails (forgot about that one on my earlier lists, Steve. Sorry), axes, hand driven pumps, etc (hand tools). I focused mostly on tools that are fairly universal. A shovel's a shovel for the most part. A hand cranked grinder used for cracking grain or grinding it for the family's use as well as the stock's not modern. Most everything I mentioned could be found on an American farm by at least 1920 and most likely a decade or 2 before probably more. The important thing about a barn is the catch all nature. There is little that is out of place in a barn. That is what I wanted to show. Hording stuff in the barn is an old practice and will never die.