Posts Tagged: 'FarmLife'

Sweet Grapes

The Fussell family and sweet wine fans have turned Duplin Winery into the biggest muscadine operation in America. A fleet of Massey Ferguson utility tractors help them get the job done. If muscadine grapes could talk, they might sound a...

Under Cover

In exchange for a little TLC, Rich Bennett’s fields produce healthy yields of grain, while saving him fertilizer, herbicide, fuel and time. Rich Bennett has gone old school. Like generations before him, he uses cover crops. As a result, he...

History Repeating Itself

Read this story from Massey Ferguson Farm Life Magazine about the Utsey family and how they found ways to live off their Alabama land passed down for six generations. Much of Jake Utsey’s history courses through the dense, ruddy Alabama soils where he makes his...

How To Build a “Living Fence”

FarmLife offers step-by-step instructions on using hedges to create a barrier that’s “bull strong and hog tight.” For our ancestors, it wasn’t uncommon to use materials found on their land to fence in their livestock. Some made their own fences...