I was a lucky boy growing up in southern Pitt County in the 1950s and 1960s. Some would disagree. For you see, tending a farm with mules was a far cry harder than using gas-driven equipment. I had the ...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) - No matter the culture, farming is familiar to many. For a Black farm in the Burgess community, their crops weren’t for selling but rather a means for survival. When you ...

Loren Basham shows the branding iron he uses on his mules at his Pair-A-Dice Mule Farm on Tuesday, February 23, 2016, near Belle, Missouri. Instead of using a hot branding iron that scars the mules' ...

The federal government estimated that farmers owned 24 million horses and mules in 1910, with most having three or four in their barns. Although the saying “as stubborn as a Missouri mule" sullied the ...