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John Deere makes a nice midsized 4WD tractor, except it costs $9k more. The new Kabotas don't look anything like the old ones. I was kind of disappointed.

We bought adults as piglets, they grow slowly and graze in the pasture. Not very destructive, they don't escape like goats. Now that our first pigs are full grown, they had a litter if their own. The three half grown piglets are headed to the freezer.

Here is a picture of my old Allis Chalmers 190T, nicknamed Harry Callahan. Dirty Harry gets every dirty job that comes along.

I'm nearly 60 yrs old and I never owned a new tractor before. But I needed something with a solid front leader, a great backhoe, and enough hp to run a large round bailer. So when I retired, I bought a Mahindra 6530. Now I had my shiny newness sitting in the rain and snow. So next, I built a...

The paperwork is marked AKGA, Yes I have five guinea hogs in the pasture as well.

last week, my neighbor decided to sell off his goats and start raising cattle. He sold a few at the local livestock auction and received about half what he thought they were worth. He knows I've been raising red sheep, and I wanted to raise a few goats as well. So he offered me his breeding...

last spring a small twister skipped across my sheep and goat pasture and damaged a livestock run in shed. In fact, it pulled a 24ft long open faced pole barn right out of the ground, and dumped it into some trees. My wife and I took the remnants apart and stacked the poles, dimensional lumber...

I grew up on a small farm in northern Iowa. We grew mostly corn and soybeans, and raised some hogs, cattle, and smaller stock for meat. Somehow living on the flat prairie and following a plow was not exciting enough for me. I studied Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State and graduated in 1982...