Farmer Ross Dicks and his wife usually raise from 5-8 head of beef cattle in a lot on their 8-acre farm in Jackson, Minn. Typically, he feeds the cattle out from 500-600 lbs. to 1,400-1,500 lbs.

In 1957, Jackson farmer Luther Cooper built a freeze-resistant automatic hog waterer using County Extension Office plans, allowing hogs in adjoining lots to share a constant water supply. Luther ...

After all the years of dreaming and planning, when the moment comes and you step out onto your first homestead, it is an exhilarating moment. You can’t believe that all this is really yours, whether ...

This reliable livestock waterer will save electricity, and you won’t have to chop ice this winter! Wetting one’s whistle can be difficult in winter! We asked our Facebook fans how to keep livestock ...

Kay Bates of DeWitt, Iowa, won "best of show" at the Clinton County Fair for filling a metal hog waterer with various plants, including a pineapple lily, two colors of sweet potato vine, gerbera ...