If tasked with envisioning the dairy barn of the future, most producers’ minds would likely go straight to technological advancements: more robust robotics and perhaps more streamlined data analysis.

Some of the tools Amos Knestrick used to build barns. The tools later were passed on to his great-grandson, Kay Stepp of Scenery Hill. Some of the tools Amos Knestrick used to build barns. The tools ...

Windows were framed into the cordwood with rough-cut poplar. Post-and-beam construction combined with cordwood barn building produces a farmstead outbuilding that protects livestock in the winter and ...

The wooden frame of the 16-sided structure, described as an offering of “healing and love to the community,” began to take ...

A Neighbors story about the building of a barn in the Detroit Lakes, Minn., area in 1936 reminded Kirby Brandhagen, Cavalier, N.D., of a poem he wrote a few years ago. For the benefit of you with farm ...

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LONGMONT — No Amish are involved, but what’s going on west of Longmont at Coyote Ridge Farm still qualifies as a good old-fashioned barn raising — with the emphasis on old-fashioned. The ...

The Barn in West Sacramento is an 80-foot long and 20-foot high wooden structure that has a different set of curves and waves depending on where you stand. It’s also been mostly uninhabited since it ...

While traveling through West Virginia and Pennsylvania last month, a large part of the time on two lane highways, my wife and I began to notice the many interesting barns along the way. Many appeared ...