Livestock

In this section, you’ll find articles on raising livestock, including cattle, hogs, and poultry. This includes herd management, health, equipment, technology, and more.

At-home animal slaughter involves risk, challenges

Food safety and animal welfare are top considerations if you butcher your own meat.

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Tire Water Tanks

Use your old machinery tires as livestock waterers in the pasture. Ice, and even mean bulls can’t destroy them.

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Keeping chickens out of trees

Why did the chicken cross the road? To roost in the tree. Some hens prefer a tree branch over a nice coop. And good luck changing their minds.

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Women in Agriculture

Farming in between the rains

By Women in Agriculture

Mud is great for farm boys in muck boots, but not so good for farmers trying to plant crops.l

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Ageless Iron

Caterpillar 30 is a family mainstay

By Ageless Iron

Tractor has been on the same California farm since 1932.

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Machinery Insider

Sizing up semis

By Machinery Insider

The semitrailer has become the transportation workhorse of choice in farming.

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Selling farm eggs

When you raise chickens, you often end up with more eggs than you know what to do with. Don’t expect to make a ton of money, but you could try selling them.

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Hog farms in coronavirus crisis need more aid, say producers

More federal aid is needed if hog farmers are to survive the coronavirus pandemic, which has depressed market prices and slowed pork production.

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Animal rights group targeting Iowa pig farmers depopulating herds

Farms and processing plants should be on high alert that they may be targeted in an attempt to capture video footage.

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New USDA plan for African swine fever includes feral swine response

The updated plan describes the initial 72-hour timeline after an outbreak.

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Sheep producers find niche markets for wool

Producers are looking to creative marketing – from value-added ventures to meeting niche markets for artisanal fibers – to keep wool production viable.

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$40 a pig to help cover disposal costs for Iowa producers

Applications start today for the Iowa Disposal Assistance Program.

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Tip of the Day

Shop-Modified Planter for Lid Storage

I designed a rack to hold all four seed tender hopper cover lids. It bolts to the side of the seed tender. I used to leave them behind or... read more