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As growers finish cutting of hay crops, now is a good time to do preventative maintenance tasks that can boost farm profits and protect farm workers, says a safety research associate and lecturer from ...

Joe Dice couldn’t get to the phone Monday morning. He was too busy making his first cut of alfalfa and grass hay and baling it at his place on Silt Mesa. “Last year, it was really spotty. We hardly ...

Early pioneers used scythes and sickles to cut the hay and then piled it up with wooden forks. In the 1940s came the twine, automatic tie baler which was pulled behind a tractor and produced a 60- to ...

SWEDONA, Ill. — While the heydays of harvest are just around the corner, one golden crop is looking greener than ever for area farmers. Droughts across the great plains are bumping up prices for ...

If you’re a hay farmer with an iPad, you can now use your Apple tablet as your in-cab display for your Harvest Tec 400T Automatic Applicator system. The two systems connect via Bluetooth, allowing ...

Diersen said, however, that it isn't unusual to see a decline in hay production after a few years of surplus production. There was a decent harvest of first cutting hay in different parts of eastern ...