PIPESTONE, Minn. — The Pipestone Lamb and Wool Program is nearly 50 years old and using new tools to shepherd producers into an increasingly profitable enterprise. Instructors are based at Minnesota ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmers are struggling through one of the more difficult summers in Iowa in decades. In addition to the drought that’s wilting crops, the extreme heat is stressing animals. Last summer, heat stress ...

A recent survey shows that hoop barns for beef cattle production are becoming more common in Iowa, offering benefits for the environment. The survey was conducted by Mark Honeyman, interim director of ...