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I have a friend who still farms with several teams of Belgians (draft horses). Of course the Amish still farm with horses. I had horses on my dairy goat farm, but they were pets (they were all rescues). I had several tractors for farm work. Not many people still farm with horses, but a few do.

A friend of mine is a fourth generation dairy farmer, and he says that his family makes a living from his cows, when they stop producing, they join his "retirement herd". He can't bear to sell them for meat. I did the same with my dairy goat herd. All of my goats (120 does) were pets and had...

WOW!!! You were given a bad review because you were closed due to the pandemic???? That's ridiculous!!! The post you just put in would be an excellent response. Just pretty much say what you just did, that you understand that the person was grieving, but they gave you no chance to help them...

I've used Milky Spore to get rid of grubs, it really works. And I used Japanese beetle traps for the beetles. They also work really well.

They sell little bell shaped attachments that you can put over where the hummingbird feeder attaches. Anyplace that sells the feeders should have them. It stops ants and other insects very well.

I've never used Irish Spring, but I have used moth balls. Tossing them into rat holes or into place where you've seen rats does keep them away.

We had bees until a few years ago, our hive suffered colony collapse. Domestic bees are pretty amazing. When we started off, my wife (who was the main caregiver to the bees) had the full bee suit, and I just had the helmet with netting. I was a little paranoid, but eventually I was helping...

A lot of beekeepers sell honey right from their property. I think that's the best way to make sure it's local.

You can grow almost anything if the containers are large enough. Although we have plenty of room for gardens in our farm, my wife and I are using more and more containers, because we don't have to bend to garden. We buy old livestock water tanks at auctions. Stock tanks between 50 and 100...

We need more info. What size grain bin? Do you mean a metal upright bin?

Interesting, Susanna, I nev er had trouble introducing laby bug and having them stay. Maybe I had more aphid than you do, and they thought they found paradise

Peacocks can be expensive, I just didn't want you to get some and then have two of them trying to kill each other. Besides, I get attached to my animals, I never want to see any die. I thought you might feel the same way. Good luck if you get them. Post here how it works out. My wife and I...

That depends on how well they were maintained before you buy them. I bought a 1950 TO-20 Ferguson tractor in 2000. I kept it for 15 years. It was a real workhorse. I only sold it because I was mostly using larger tractors and didn't need it anymore. I sold it for exactly what I bought it...

I actually had to call the town animal control officer and he had to go over to the neighbors and threaten that they'd have to pay me $50 for each chicken their dog killed. I told the animal control officer I didn't want anything to happen to the dog. After they figured they'd owe me hundreds...

Almost Eden, I said roosters can get along, I have no idea if that works for peacocks.

Even Tractor Supply sells the sanitizing solution for cleaning milking machines. As Jack says, the cleaning steps are not complicated.

Even lots of fly strips in the right locations help, as well.

In addition to the above, I always hang a bunch of fly traps in my barns.

After 911 lots of people left the city for the country. I think the pandemic will cause some people to move out of the city again.

The trouble with using a shipping container is that whenever you fill it, the grain at the bottom get covered up and will get pretty funky. A tower shaped grain bin is filled from the top and you take the grain out of the bottom. How do you make sure you don't have old grain in the shipping...