In a field golden with last year's grain stubble, the scene seems to be one from a former era as teams of horses and mules plow and disk the land. It is here that veteran teamsters gladly share their ...

COLUMBIA — The horses panted as they pulled an old-fashioned steel plow through the muddy earth. "Whoas" and "haws" came from their drivers, who pulled the reins of draft horses and mules as they ...

Farmers in the 18th century may not have had to worry about tractor repairs, but there is one factor they had to consider that modern farmers don’t have to worry about: mule temperament. Terri Penick, ...

During my earliest years, there in the head of Blair Branch, my dad would get the itch to trade off the mule he had fed all winter and get one better suited for spring plowing. That, of course, brings ...