Rural Heritage August/September 2025

VOLUME 50

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2025

NUMBER 4

Editor/Publisher Joe Mischka editor@ruralheritage.com Advertising ad@ruralheritage.com Editing Susan Blocker Subscriber Services subscribe@ruralheritage.com Regular Contributors

Departments

5 Publisher's Post 76 J.C. Allen Archives 82 Calendar of Events 85 Associations

90 My Card 96 Breeder's Directory 97 RH on RFD-TV

Rob Collins Ralph J. Rice Anne & Eric Nordell Donn Hewes Jerry Hicks Dick Courteau

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Features 8 Is Foaling for You?........................................................... Ralph Rice 14 Forecart Upgrade. ...................................................... Donn Hewes 18 Mud, Mud, Everywhere Mud..................................... Donn Hewes 22 Royal KC Draft Horse Show................................... Rural Heritage i Four Bonus Pages 26 Productive Struggle......................................................... Rob Collins 32 A Baker’s Dozen .............................................. Jacqueline Courteau 40 Brush Creek Plow Day............................................... Rural Heritage v Four Bonus Pages 44 The Mares — Part Two.................................................... Jerry Hicks 48 2025 HPD New & Interesting................................... Rural Heritage 58 2025 Lyndon Farm Team.......................................... Rural Heritage 64 Manning Farm Team Show....................................... Rural Heritage 70 Installing an Earthwork................................................. Joe Mischka ix Four Bonus Pages

3 Cover Photo and above: Taylor Johnson logs pulpwood with his Norwegian Fjord gelding, Ole, in northern Wisconsin. — Rural Heritage Photos

August/September 2025