Livestock
What to Actually Wear for a Full Day of Fieldwork
I ruined three pairs of ordinary work gloves in a single month before I finally bought a pair actually rated for handling hay...
Livestock and pasture writer
Walt grew up on his family's cattle farm and now keeps a smaller flock of chickens and a handful of goats on his own few acres. He writes about livestock the way a neighbor would explain it over a fence, not the way a textbook does.
Livestock
I ruined three pairs of ordinary work gloves in a single month before I finally bought a pair actually rated for handling hay...
Pest and Disease Control
A grower I know skipped crop insurance for six straight seasons because the premium felt like money spent on nothing when the...
Livestock
My uncle used to say that a smooth calving season was mostly a matter of luck, the kind of year the herd happened to have.
Pest and Disease Control
I lost an entire row of tomatoes to early blight one summer because I spent the first week assuming the yellowing lower leaves...
Livestock
My first goat looked perfectly normal to me for weeks, thick coat, active, eating well, right up until the day our vet ran her...
Livestock
The first birds I lost were not taken by a fox, despite every book I had read warning me about foxes above all else.