Ranked #1
FF 037 - Heating the Brooder
FF 037 - Heating the Brooder
Despite the cold outside, brooders around the country will be heating up as spring is just around the corner. Today, we... Read more
26 Feb 2019
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30mins
Ranked #2
FF 046 - Boar Taint in Pigs
FF 046 - Boar Taint in Pigs
Our old boar, Wilbur, came to the end of his breeding days recently. What do you do with an intact boar that weighs over... Read more
28 Jul 2019
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39mins
Ranked #3
FF 042 - Working with Green Lumber: Board & Batten Siding
FF 042 - Working with Green Lumber: Board & Batten Siding
We brought in a portable sawmill & cut the oaks we had felled this winter for siding for the store. Spence explains ... Read more
30 Apr 2019
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48mins
Ranked #4
FF 052 - When Animal "Rights" Folks Don't Respect Farm Boundaries
FF 052 - When Animal "Rights" Folks Don't Respect Farm Boundaries
Mike updates us on his geese empire & Spence is getting the goose fever - who knows maybe the holler will be a honki... Read more
17 Dec 2019
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57mins
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Ranked #5
FF 044 - Q&A - Cornish Cross vs Heritage Breeds & The Dynamics of Freezing Meat
FF 044 - Q&A - Cornish Cross vs Heritage Breeds & The Dynamics of Freezing Meat
Time to answer some listener questions! Also, Mike is planting some pumpkins...or should we say punkins. Probably! Got a... Read more
22 Jun 2019
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39mins
Ranked #6
FF 012 - Nerdin' Out on Meat Chicken Breeds
FF 012 - Nerdin' Out on Meat Chicken Breeds
Want to know about breeds of chickens that are raised for meat? No seriously - do you REALLY want to know about broilers... Read more
27 Mar 2018
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36mins
Ranked #7
FF 047 - Cash flow, it's a killer!
FF 047 - Cash flow, it's a killer!
We got bit by the cash flow bug here at ATC Farm recently. Cash flow is a challenge that nearly every for-profit farm ha... Read more
2 Aug 2019
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39mins
Ranked #8
FF 025 - Q&A Pasture Rotation Freq & Auto Feed lines
FF 025 - Q&A Pasture Rotation Freq & Auto Feed lines
In this episode Spence & Mike answer some listener questions. Sorry about the rough audio on Spence's end - it works... Read more
3 Aug 2018
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33mins
Ranked #9
FF 022 - Complementary Farm Enterprises
FF 022 - Complementary Farm Enterprises
Most family farms are multi-faceted and rely on multiple enterprises. It's really important that these enterprises work ... Read more
21 Jun 2018
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39mins
Ranked #10
FF 024 - History of the Modern Poultry Industry
FF 024 - History of the Modern Poultry Industry
Chicken farming as we know it is a fairly recent development - but it's older than people think. We take a quick look at... Read more
19 Jul 2018
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57mins
Ranked #11
FF 011 - I'll Fly Away - One Crisis Causes Another
FF 011 - I'll Fly Away - One Crisis Causes Another
It's never good when the cops call you to let you know your shop went airborne - into the powerlines & settling in t... Read more
17 Mar 2018
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39mins
Ranked #12
FF 016 - Economics of Pullets vs Starting Hens
FF 016 - Economics of Pullets vs Starting Hens
Carla & I just drove over 1200 mi one way to PA to pickup a trailerload of pullets. Why not just start our own layin... Read more
26 Apr 2018
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33mins
Ranked #13
FF 010 - Farming with Kids
FF 010 - Farming with Kids
In this episode, Spence talks about farming with kids. Spence & Carla started the farm about the same time as they s... Read more
8 Mar 2018
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32mins
Ranked #14
FF 021 - Beyond the Whole Bird - Adding Value to Pasture Poultry
FF 021 - Beyond the Whole Bird - Adding Value to Pasture Poultry
What do you do when you saturate your market's demand fo whole birds? We tackle it in this episode - cut ups, hot wings,... Read more
11 Jun 2018
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50mins
Ranked #15
FF 013 Riding Out a Late Night Storm & Hard Work
FF 013 Riding Out a Late Night Storm & Hard Work
It's midnight and you're watching radar as the rain comes in - by 1 am you're out in a hoopcoop with a flock of chickens... Read more
2 Apr 2018
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20mins
Ranked #16
FF 048 - Dealing with Problematic Raccoons
FF 048 - Dealing with Problematic Raccoons
As summer comes to an end, we've had our first really troublesome predation on our flocks - the culprit: a trash panda o... Read more
30 Aug 2019
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44mins
Ranked #17
FF 017 - Farming to Live or Living to Farm
FF 017 - Farming to Live or Living to Farm
Spring is here & you could work 24 hours a day and never get all your farmwork done - especially if you're bootstrap... Read more
10 May 2018
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53mins
Ranked #18
FF 023 - Summer Farm Observations
FF 023 - Summer Farm Observations
The grind of summer is rolling over farms across the nation. Spence & Mike talk about some season specifc farm obser... Read more
7 Jul 2018
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46mins
Ranked #19
FF 20 - Hot Weather Poultry Care
FF 20 - Hot Weather Poultry Care
From an bitterly cold start to spring to a ridiculously hot finish of springtime, growers from all across the country ar... Read more
31 May 2018
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45mins
Ranked #20
FF 015 - Morels & Muscovies
FF 015 - Morels & Muscovies
The first successful Spencer morel hunt means spring is here (despite what the windchills say). Mike talks about cooking... Read more
19 Apr 2018
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37mins
