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That all depends on what you need. I've bought everything from a tractor to hand tools at farm auctions. Make sure that you check out whatever you're interested in during the viewing. Have the maximum price that you'd pay set in your mind, and don't go a penny above that.

Goats are definitely a lot of fun. Shetland and Icelandic sheep are "primitive" sheep and haven't had their intelligence bred out of them, they are a lot of fun, too. So are llamas, horses and donkeys.

Since then, I have had other people tell me that they had issues with Honda honoring their warranties. I am done with Honda or any level.

I don't want to take credit for something that I'm not doing. Although I work in the health care industry, I work as a health care regulator for the New York State Dept. of Health. So don't give me credit as a health care hero, I'm not one of them, but I do know something about vaccines.

I work in the health care industry. The vaccine is going to take a while to test to determine if it's effective and safe.

As I've said before, though I am very political, I don't think discussing politics on this forum will do anyone any good. We all work to help each other. Discussing something that will be divisive won't help this forum.

The best way is to prevent them as best you can. We use a lot of mulch and landscape fabric where ever we can. Puling weeks is miserable work, and we do not use herbacides.

We are expanding our garden and getting more chickens for eggs. Covid is not going away anytime soon, it's best to be prepared for whatever happens.

Lots of planning, and you have to coordinate with your local dairy regulatory agency. Before I even started building my milk house, I brought my building plans to my regulatroy agency for them to review. No sense in building it, if it won't meet code.

There are LOTS of variables depending on your location and your individual property. Do you have pastures and housing for livestock? Do you have a water source? Do you have a food source? Do you have a source for a starter herd? Do you have a market? What sells best in your area? As...

A good response is llamas. Llamas are outstanding guard animals, they will chase away any predators, including raccoons. and they become part of the herd. They love the goats, protect them, play with them, and even take care of the goat kids.

Having a farm is better than a gym. If you can stack hay, you can do anything.

I don't think that's strange, animals are part of the family. We do that, too. Not only with our dogs and cats, but with our livestock, too, because we consider them all pets, as well.

Especially dairy farmers. When I was milking goats, I had to milk them every day at 5AM and 5PM no matter what.

I did sell it. I put it in an auction and I put a note on it that the recoil was broken, but the mower had only been used a few times. I knew that someone who could replace the recoil themselves would want it.

They said the recoil wasn't part of the warranty. That's absurd, they're supposed to have the best warranty, but it's just not true.

The worst experience I had with a warranty not being honored was with a Honda lawn mower. We use a walk behind mower to do the trim around our house, which is a lot of mowing. We got tired of mowers only lasting a few seasons, so we bit the bullet and got a Honda walk behind, self-propelled...

I've never had any problems with changes in temperature with any of my livestock. I make sure they all have a good draft free barn to go into if they want to. I think that protects them from feeling the effects of sudden temperature changes.

Leasing the land to a farmer to make hay (if you have some decent relatively weed free pastures) is a good way to make quick money, and it usually qualifies you to get an agricultural exemption for your property taxes. It can help you save up money to buy equipment you need for your own farming...

That's probably feed corn for livestock. They let it dry on the stalk and then chop it and blow it into a silo to make silage for cows. The corn ferments in the silo, it adds protein to the corn, and makes quality feed for milk cows.