FREDERICK — By using a hoop barn with a compost bed pack and paying close attention to DNA testing to capitalize on the traits of his animals, a cattleman near Frederick feels that he’s made some ...

Building a barn is a hands-on education in problem solving and self-reliance. Meet your livestock’s needs on a budget with these sheep housing design ideas to build a DIY sheep barn. We farm a little ...

Brent Bryant, managing director of Beef Hoop Systems, keeps cattle under a hoop barn at his company's research farm Crops are not the only things wilting in the sweltering summer of 2012; cattle, the ...

PENINSULA, Ohio -- The rambling, 99-year-old red barn is gone, burning so hotly it melted the plastic bumper on a car 50 feet away. But the sheep are safe from a Tuesday night fire at Spicy Lamb Farm ...

AUSTIN, Minn. — Keith Ellis traded his off-farm job for full-time farming two years ago. He expanded his hog production capacity by building three more hoop buildings and adding sows. He markets all ...