uring my husband’s and my recent trip to the West Coast, we watched farmers making hay in hundreds of fields beside the highways. We saw small rectangular and large round bales lying in the fields – ...

Stacking hay bales is a stop-and-go process, further held up when the bale gets stuck on the loader forks. In less than five hours, Lester Langeland and son Marlin of Marne, Mich., attached a ...

For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

In 2010, the Madison County Phase I board approved the purchase of an in-line hay wrapper for rental use by local farmers. For producers to get familiar with baling and wrapping high-moisture hay and ...