by Jeremy Hipes | Oct 13, 2026 | Barn Business
It’s 5:15 on a Tuesday in early November. Your 4:30 lesson is mid-canter, the arena is going gray, and a parent in the bleachers is quietly checking the sky. Nobody planned for this. The schedule looked fine last week, and then the clocks changed. Daylight...
by Jeremy Hipes | Sep 29, 2026 | Barn Business
It started as a convenience. A boarder asked if she could just Venmo you for the month, and it was easier than waiting on a check. Then a lesson parent did the same. Then the farrier split. Then a show-fee reimbursement. Now half your barn income flows through the...
by Jeremy Hipes | Sep 23, 2026 | Barn Business, Blog
Your 4:30 lesson used to end in daylight. Now you’re flipping on the arena lights halfway through the flat work, a boarder is texting to ask whether her horse actually got turned out before dark, and you’re squinting at the calendar wondering how...
by Jeremy Hipes | Sep 8, 2026 | Barn Business
By September, most barn owners have already survived one gauntlet this year — show season, the back-to-school lesson scramble, fall vet and farrier scheduling — and winter is probably the last thing you want to think about. But the calendar doesn’t negotiate....
by Jeremy Hipes | Sep 1, 2026 | Barn Business
Every barn owner has felt it: you sit down with the feed bill, the farrier invoice, and the hay delivery receipt, and the math just doesn’t work anymore. Your board rate hasn’t moved in a year, maybe two, but everything you buy to keep those horses fed,...
by Jeremy Hipes | Aug 25, 2026 | Barn Business
Walk into most boarding barns in late August or September and you’ll find the same scene: a dry-erase board covered in half-erased notes, a stack of Coggins paperwork someone meant to file, and a barn owner trying to remember whether Thunder’s rabies...
by Jeremy Hipes | Aug 18, 2026 | Barn Business
The trailers are finally unloaded. The tack is drying out from a hasty hose-off, somebody’s ribbon collection is scattered across the front seat of a truck, and your phone won’t stop buzzing with photos from the weekend. Show season is winding down at...
by Jeremy Hipes | Aug 11, 2026 | Barn Business
The last show of the season wraps, the trailer pulls back into the barn, and before anyone’s had a chance to hose off the travel dust, fall lesson sign-ups are already landing in your inbox. It’s tempting to slide straight from “show mode” into...
by Jeremy Hipes | Aug 4, 2026 | Barn Business
Your best trainer is loading the trailer Thursday afternoon and won’t be back until Monday. Three of your regular lesson kids are going with her. The rest of your program — the Tuesday adult beginners, the Saturday morning pony group, the boarders who just want...
by Jeremy Hipes | Jul 30, 2026 | Blog
If you’ve searched “how much does it cost to board a horse” and landed on ten different answers ranging from $200 to $2,000 a month, you’re not imagining the spread — board pricing genuinely varies that much, and almost all of it comes down to two things:...
