Using an ox team may seem an antique hobby to you, but on a small farm can be really useful. “It’s a very low tech, low tech solution to farming problems,” explains Kendy Sawyer, who was training ...

On a recent afternoon amid the hype of children, rides and fried-food bliss, one very large OC Fair employee stands out from the crowd – a black-and-white, 6-foot-tall ox named Patches. Patches, a ...

Since Calumet Avenue has punched its way through to U.S. 30, it is easy to see how land in the middle part of Lake County is likely to develop. From the overpass, one can look down not at corn sprouts ...

Topper and Stash stood on the edge of a ravine, a 20-foot drop, with a log attached to their yoke. One more step and they’d go over the edge dragging the log with them. It would be a very messy tumble ...

LANCASTER — Two investigations are underway after a video was posted on a social media site Saturday that showed an oxen team being repeatedly struck by their driver with a goading stick to get them ...