Tools and Machinery
Buying Secondhand Machinery Is a Calculated Risk
I bought a secondhand disc harrow from a private seller for a price that felt like a genuine bargain, skipped a close...
Blog, page 22 of 24
Every guide we have published, newest first. Field notes, equipment breakdowns, and the occasional argument with advice that sounds good in a magazine and falls apart on an actual plot.
Tools and Machinery
I bought a secondhand disc harrow from a private seller for a price that felt like a genuine bargain, skipped a close...
Raising Animals
An older shepherd I used to work alongside called a clean lambing season pure luck, the kind of year the flock happened to...
Crop Protection
A grower two farms over from mine told me once that he had stopped walking his fields daily because nothing ever changed day to...
Farm Income
A wholesale buyer offered to take my entire lettuce harvest three seasons ago, every week, at a price that looked reasonable on...
Crop Protection
By the time I could put a name to the blight moving through my tomato rows three years ago, it had already jumped two beds...
Tools and Machinery
The quote for a pre-purchase inspection on a used tractor I was eyeing a few years back came in higher than I wanted to spend...