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Hand milking a single goat takes 10 to 15 minutes. Multiply that by four or five animals twice a day and you’ve lost nearly two hours of your day to the milk pail. After three months of testing on our own herd of Nigerian Dwarf and Nubian goats, I can tell you that the best … Read more

When I started raising dairy goats three years ago, I quickly learned that hand-skimming cream from raw milk is slow and wasteful. After burning through a cheap countertop gadget that promised miracles, I invested in a proper centrifugal cream separator and never looked back. Our team has spent the last 90 days testing 10 of … Read more

I built my first wheel of farmhouse cheddar in a kitchen with a stack of textbooks and a soup can balanced on the curds. The result looked like a collapsed UFO. A proper cheese press changed everything for me, and after testing eight models side by side over several weeks, I can tell you exactly … Read more

Grinding your own livestock feed saves serious money over time. I have talked with dozens of small-farm owners who slashed their feed bills by 30% just by buying whole grains and processing them on-site. After testing 8 of the most popular electric and PTO feed grinders available in , I am sharing which machines actually … Read more

I spent the last six weeks testing eight broadcast spreaders on three different lawns in suburban Illinois, and the differences between models surprised me. The Scotts Turf Builder EdgeGuard DLX covered my 7,500 sq ft lawn in 18 minutes flat, while the SOLO 421 chest-mount let me spot-treat a sloped patch without any of the … Read more

Last spring I planted a 40-foot row of carrots by hand and lost half the seeds to wind and over-planting. That was the season I promised myself a real seeder. Two years and 23 rows later, I have put eight of the most popular garden seeders through their paces on clay-loam, sandy beds, and even … Read more

I spent six weeks testing the best backpack sprayers on my 2-acre property in southern Oregon, spraying everything from blackberry thickets to vegetable gardens. By the end, my arms were sore, my boots were stained, and I had a clear winner for every kind of user. Choosing the best backpack sprayers comes down to one … Read more

Spending a Saturday with a backpack sprayer on two acres of pasture taught me one thing fast: I needed a tow behind sprayer. After three weekends of testing eight different models behind my ATV and lawn tractor, I can tell you exactly which pull behind sprayers are worth your money in . Our team compared … Read more

Last summer, our team treated three test properties across 30 days to find the best fogger sprayers that actually deliver on coverage claims. We sprayed through tall grass, tree lines, and tight indoor spaces with 12 different models and tracked runtime, droplet size, noise, and how often we needed to refill. The result is this … Read more

I planted my first garden row by hand in 2017 and lost most of the carrots to inconsistent spacing. That frustration sent me down the rabbit hole of push seeders, and over the past nine seasons our team has tested more than 30 different plate seeders on a working market farm. We have broken handles, … Read more