Why do farms raise horses?

Ho ho, do you know the old joke about the farmer who was asked why he didn't buy a tractor and get rid of his draft horses? He said, “The tractor uses a lot of expensive gas and breaks down all the time, but the horses provide fertilizer and their own replacements.” Horses are great at keeping down weeds. read more

Farms raise horses either for sale as sport or recreation animals, or as pets. Also to sell them to other breeders. Some farms (in some countries) raise horses as meat animals. read more

Some people use horses to move cattle do different grazing pastures or to move them into a pen, horses can be used for logging, transportation on a big farm (to check fences or check horses in other pastures for instance) and a number of other things. read more