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Manage Livestock and Land With Easy Rotational Grazing

Animals | Equipment | Farm Management | Large Animals |
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Overgrazing can be a concern, especially for small farms with limited grazing areas. Here's what you need to promote regrowth through rotation.

4 Uses for Rocks and Stones on Your Farm

Crops & Gardening | Equipment |
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Rocks are generally a nuisance on farms, but if you have lots of them around, why not embrace that fact and put them to good use? Here are some ideas.

Build Quick-and-Easy Sun Shelters for Your Pigs

Animals | Equipment | Large Animals |
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Pigs need less predator protection than other livestock, but they need to avoid the sun. This shelter system provides important shade when the sun is high and hot.

5 Nuts to Forage During the Fall

Crops & Gardening
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Supplement your fall snack supply with these wild and tasty nuts. Here's where to find them and how to identify them.

8 Crops that Can Survive a Little Frost

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
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Crops such as kale, collards, turnips and even certain types of lettuce can survive—and even improve—with frost, so they're ideal for fall and winter planting.

Tractor Attachments: Get to Know Planters & Seeders

Equipment
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Planters and seeders perform the same function for different crops. Here's what you need to know to use the machines safely and at maximum efficiency.

Livestock Farmers: Stack Hay More Easily With a Hay Elevator

Animals | Equipment | Large Animals |
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Even a small farm can go through hundreds of small square hay bales in a season. A hay elevator can save time and effort stacking those bales.

5 Steps to Prepare Your Goats for Natural Disasters

Animals | Equipment | Farm Management | Large Animals | News |
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We were spared major damage in Hurricane Florence, but the storm showed us what livestock farmers should expect in a natural disaster. Here's how to prepare.

Catch the Buzz: 8 Facts About Hummingbirds

Farm Management
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Hummingbirds travel thousands of miles per year, lay tiny eggs and have stunning wing speed. Here's how to attract these pollinators and help researchers who study them.

5 Tough Takeaways From Gardening With a Baby

Beginning Farmers
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The year's goals have gone unaccomplished, but I've learned important lessons about my land, my time and what I really want from this farm.

6 Ways to Sell More Vegetables During Winter

Farm Management
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Continuing to grow summer vegetables can be a costly process. Instead, grow hardier vegetables and find the customers who want them. Here's how.

5 Groups of Predatory Beetles Found on the Farm

Crops & Gardening
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Predatory beetles are helpers in the garden, consuming many different pest insects. Learn how 5 groups work as well as some of their identifying factors.

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