A very difficult problem to deal with in the labor force and farming industry can be ripped pants. Ripped pants can come from about anything you can imagine. For example, barbwire fence, burns from sparks, jeans getting old and worn out, etc. could all cause a rip or tear. With…

Mowing a lawn can be as simple or as complex as the owner desires. It can simply be the process of brush hogging field brush and tall grass a few times each year to keep the brush down or as complex as making stripes on a green, luscious yard with…

The process of loading market hogs in a pasture-based system or a confinement system can be intimidating. Market hogs are pigs that have been raised for butcher and are at the ideal weight to travel to slaughter. The ideal weight range is 220–300 pounds, depending on who the customer is…

Changing guitar strings is a very important task for any guitarist ranging from the novice level to the expert level. The older the guitar strings get, the quality of tone decreases. The amount of time between each string change can depend based on how much the guitar is played. The…

A budget is a very important tool structured to help control your spending made to work toward your financial goals. Budgets are a financial summary of income and expenses over a defined period, such as one month, quarterly, biannually, or yearly. The typical household budget is over a one-month period…

Fire is a way of survival. Flint was struck against other rocks to create a spark. When the discovery of sparks was found, fire was then used for keeping warm, cooking, forging tools, and weapons, deterring predators, and many other tasks. Fire can be used for so many things in…

Welding is a process of heating two pieces of metal to a high enough temperature to bond them together. The earliest examples of welding come from the Bronze age. In the middle ages, the art of blacksmithing became popular which was the form of hammering two pieces of metal together…

Artificial Insemination is a process used to artificially breed sows with only a teaser boar present. With the collection process of highly qualified boars and processing of their semen, it allows genetics to be sent all over the world. …

Ear notching in the hog industry is well known within the smaller farms and show hog industries. The purpose of notching pigs is for a form of identification. Without an ear tag or ear notch, the pigs can get lost within the litter or within the pigs raised alongside them…