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Making Bucks from Clucks

These five reasons might be why you're losing money on your chickens.

Soil Testing

Whether you are new to farming altogether or you are leasing your farmland to a producer who is unfamiliar with the practice, becoming knowledgeable about the acts of soil testing and them applying recommended soil amendments based on soil test results provides tremendous advantages to the soil, plants, and your pocketbook.

Small-But-Mighty Hot Peppers

You don’t have to have a lot of garden space or an especially long growing season to succeed with hot peppers.

French Intensive Gardening

This permaculture system relies on soil improvement, raised beds, close spacing, companion planting, succession planting and crop rotation. Oui, oui!

FORAGE FOR FOWL

Consider these three cool-season forages as you plant your pasture with free-range poultry in mind.

Cut-And-Come Lettuce

Maximize your profits while minimizing time to grow and seed costs with this easy cut-and-come approach to growing lettuce salad mix.

Laying AN EGG

Maintaining correct male-to-female ratios and keeping flocks of younger breeding fowl will help ensure higher fertility and hatching rates.

20 COOP CONSIDERATIONS

Keep these 20 things in mind when designing a home for your chickens.

Get LOW in Spring

There comes a time when we all just want to start planting in our gardens again, and a low tunnel provides an earlier-is-better option.

Seed-Starting Soil Temps

Don't miss out on growing time by focusing only on the air temperature.

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Small-But-Mighty Hot Peppers

The RISE of Opportunist WEEDS

Be prepared to see increasing changes in weeds we fight, such as poison hemlock and poison ivy, and in the crops we grow.

LIVESTOCK Health

Prepare yourself for how to spot symptoms of illness in your farm animals so that you can get them help before it's too late.

CUT FLOWER Farming

If you're considering growing flowers for sale, brush up on these five key things to know before diving in.

WINTER Survival

Keep your land, animals and yourself in good shape this winter with this helpful advice.

COVERAGE CONCERNS

Avoid common insurance mistakes for rural and hobby farm businesses.

FARMER'S GUIDE Berries

Set the stage for tasty strawberries, blueberries and brambles with these soil-boosting garden tips.

Preconditioning CALVES

Follow our step-by-step guide to get more money for your calves.

Soil Conservation

Often, outside of having a specific problem that needs to be addressed, soil conservation isn't something every farmer readily thinks about. Yet conserving the soil should be at or near the top of every farmer owner or manager's list of concerns because absent the prevention of soil erosion, we have the opportunity for another dust bowl.

Year-Round Lettuce & Salad Mixes

It's easy to think of salad greens as just a spring- or fall-garden crop, but it's possible to enjoy freshly harvested lettuces, mustards and more from your own garden year-round.

Barn Improvements

Days are never long enough for a farmer. From dawn to well into the night, tasks arise that often require immediate action. Having to search for tools or equipment is an enormous time waster and incredibly frustrating when you can't find what you need, especially when you know you have it.

Mustard Greens

I’ll be honest right from the start: I’m writing this column to myself. That means I’m not approaching the topic as “you should be growing mustard greens,” but rather, “why wasn’t I growing mustard greens until now?”

FREE-RANGE GARDENERS

Put away the rototiller and get more nutritious eggs by allowing your chickens to work in the garden.

Ostrich EDUCATION

If you're looking for a unique livestock option, these large, flightless birds might be the answer.

Spiced Apple Rings

Learn the best and tastiest ways to put up the traditional canning foods, from tomatoes and green beans to apples and peaches in this new book.

RURAL REBOUND

Have cities reached their peak?

Pie Time!

Make a sweet potato crumb pie for the holidays or any day!

Soil SOLUTIONS

By practicing more sustainable farming techniques, we can bring back the rich topsoil of the preindustrial era.

Groundbreaking Fertilizer

Raise compost worms and harvest their waste, which is a natural and powerful plant fertilizer.

Cut & Dried

DRYING YOUR HERB HARVEST OFFERS AN EASY WAY TO PRESERVE ITS FLAVOR AND USEFULNESS FOR PROJECTS AND RECIPES YEAR-ROUND.