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Joel Dufour, owner of Earth Tools, Inc., in Owenton, Ky., grew up using two-wheel tractors on the family acreage and helping his dad sell them to other small farmers. Hydraulic or fluid power is reflected in both gallons-per-minute flow rate and pounds-per-inch...
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Angora Goats: Equipment and Shearing
Learn how to properly feed your goats before you buy some. Angora goats get sick or die when stressed by rain and cold. » Ask Martok! Do you have a livestock or wildlife question you want me to answer?
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Philadelphia
Infographic: Equipment Selections for Spring Farm Maintenance
Think about the task ahead and the tools you need to get the job done. The right tool saves time and effort, making cleanup easier and more fun to do. Whatever it is, the guide below will help you make the best equipment decisions for the work that lays...
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Essential Tools & Equipment for the Small Farm
Hanging a new barn door? Composter iStock/Thinkstock I love composting. We also bring newborn calves easily from field to barn in bad weather, with mama tagging along next to the cart.
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Remember Your Farm Equipment When Spring Cleaning!
Once the new filter is in place, fill the engine back up with oil, and you should be good to go. Check Tire Air Pressure It's not uncommon for the tires on vehicles, including tractors, trailers and wagons, to lose pressure during the winter and be low...
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Small-Farm Tillage And No-Till Equipment
It features a 12-volt electric lift, wavy coulter on front, a seed stirator and an optional, chain-link harrow. Ag-quality cultipackers, adjustable disc angles, disc blade scrapers, a center-ripper shank and the company's exclusive Accu-seed system are...
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Philadelphia
Water Garden Supplies: Tips On Backyard Pond Equipment And Plants
Everyone loves being near water. This can be done with bricks, rocks, wood, or even a row of low plants.Another useful piece of backyard pond equipment is a layer of rocks or gravel on top of the lining.
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Willoughby
Getting Attached To Your Equipment: A Primer On Tractor Attachments
It can basically be used as a miniature crane should you need to service a machine or even a farm truck. Looking at the front-end-mounted products on the market—mechanically as well as hydraulically operated—can leave you staring into the face of...
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Use Online Classified Sites to Stay Within Your Farm Equipment Budget
I'm personally more inclined to check casually for the other items on the list—farm budgets don't usually have too much of a slush fund, and the “wants” are best left for deals that are too good to pass up.
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Lawn Mowing Equipment: What Are The Different Kinds Of Lawn Mowers
The type of mower you choose will also affect cutting heights, as some mowers cut better at different heights.All lawn mower types require maintenance to keep them functioning properly and cutting nicely.
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Willoughby
Must Have Gardening Tools – Learn About Common Garden Tools And Equipment
Garden trowels also come in handy when scooping and moving soil during potting or repotting of plants.– You may be surprised at just how often you depend on garden scissors for trimming small branches, harvesting herbs, deadheading plants or cutting...
Ohio
Willoughby
Beginner Beekeeper Q-and-A: What Equipment Do I Need to Get Started?
There's nothing terribly wrong with jeans, and many beekeepers wear their normal clothes to inspect their hives. As a beekeeper, you learn something new every year, for as long as you keep bees.
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Philadelphia
A Farmer\'s Guide To Buying A Welder
Enter one of the farmer's most useful repair tricks of the trade: welding. These welders strike an electric current, or arc, between the welding electrode, aka stick—you can see where the machinery and process get their names—and the base metal, which...
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Philadelphia
How To Farm With Horses
Drawbacks To Draft Horses The most cited drawback to working with draft animals is speed. There are many events across the country throughout the summer, such as the Horse Progress Days , where you can talk to other farmers or maybe even get some hands-on...
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Sprayer Selection
If you don't have at least one sprayer in your equipment shed, you likely will soon. Picking the right spray system for you requires that you first determine your sprayer needs. I have two 4-gallon backpack sprayers and several handheld sprayers plus...
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Philadelphia
Rough-cut Mowers
Today, they can easily trail behind a tractor, UTV or ATV . That said, not all rough-cut mowers or rotary cutters are equal. A shear pin will have to be replaced, while a slip clutch lets you keep going.
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Philadelphia
5 Tools You Need As A Beekeeper
Despite our best efforts to be sensitive, gentle and considerate, stings are an inevitable part of keeping bees , and it would be prudent to protect the delicate tissues of the face.
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Philadelphia
6 Questions To Ask When Buying A Snowblower
For clearing small areas of snow that aren't very deep, an electric snowblower might be all you need. Single-stage models are designed for cleaning small areas of light snow and aren't very powerful, while two-stage and three-stage models can move significantly...
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Philadelphia
Tools for Tight Spaces
But the alternatives aren't always satisfactory either: let the crop go to waste or arrange for custom baling. Because they move so quickly, it's important to use these versatile tools with care.
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Can\'t Afford A Tractor? Use Your ATV/UTV To The Max
The latest recorded heavy-duty, factory-produced towing capacity is 2,000 pounds with a UTV or side-by-side machine. Moving People Polaris One thing that many hobby farmers may take into consideration is the ease of getting you and your help (providing...
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Philadelphia
Program Gives Women Farmers Ag-business Training
“We became very interested in the information because it covers everything you face as a farmer, a farmer's wife, a farm partner—and women farmers are an underserved audience.” Annie's Project offers 18 hours of training by extension-service and...
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Program Promotes Agricultural Literacy
Her experience has helped her accomplish more as a student, she says. “With our growing urban and suburban populations, agricultural educators are more important than ever,” Hosselton says.
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Can You Afford That Tool?
“How does it fit with my business plan, if I have one? If you don't have cash to finance the purchase up front, you need to have income in place to repay a loan on the piece of equipment.
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5 (More) Farm Tools For Which I\'m Thankful
Ratcheting Straps I was given a set of ratcheting straps as a Christmas gift last year and put them to good use over the summer, using them to tie down large loads of tree trimmings piled on my trusty red wagon.
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Philadelphia
9 Items You Need to Start a Goat Dairy
This is another complex decision, and you'll likely need to consult experts. Keeping equipment clean will help avoid off-flavors and provide a greater assurance against bacterial growth in the milk.
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Philadelphia
5 Cleaning Secrets To A Successful Beekeeping Year
General cleaning such as this might seem like an obvious step, but it is often overlooked when we are caring for the bees outside and are so concerned about the winter welfare. Now that your bees are bedded down for the coming winter, let's look at what...
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Philadelphia
Use Essential Oils For Clean Coops & Healthy Chickens
If you've had success with essential oils in your life, perhaps it's time to get your flock involved. “One of their studies, published in October 2014 in the journal Poultry Science, found that chickens that consumed feed with added oregano oil had...
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Philadelphia