NEVADA, Mo. — Up to 25 percent of the leaves on alfalfa plants can be lost during hay baling, Ryan Lock, a University of Missouri research specialist, told farmers at an alfalfa meeting held Jan. 23 ...

It’s that time of year when farmers are baling hay. It's a tough job. You spend long hours out in the sun, and if something goes wrong, that just makes your day even longer. Mack Farmer knows all ...

ST. JOHN – Most years, Jordan Hickel would be waiting for the right conditions to get out his baler – waiting around for the perfect humidity. But it’s 3 p.m. on a hot July day, and the Stafford ...

Farms in Kansas grow a variety of hay, from legumes to grasses, and storing and preserving that hay is important. “Different types of hay can have very different levels of protein and energy because ...

Freshly baled hay with more than 20% moisture will heat up and actually reduce the energy level of the hay. There is a great misconception that once hay is “dry” and baled it is plain and devoid of ...

In the dead calm of a summer night, even agriculture sleeps—but not David Hinman. Minutes past midnight, the Wheatland, Wyo., producer wakes up and checks humidity levels via weather apps, slips out ...

In Nebraska, compared to last week all reported forages sold steady. Demand was light with a load here and there getting sold, according to the USDA Market News Service, Aug. 23. Prices given on a per ...

SISSETON, S.D. - The march of rain storms have made it a challenge to bring in the alfalfa hay crop on the Dale and Travis Rinas farm, north of Sisseton, S.D. Travis, 37, farms with his father, Dale, ...

My son gave me a present this week — sort of. He let me drive the truck while he and some friends picked up hay bales on the farm near Wellsville, Mo. Matthew laughed about it being a return to my ...

FORT RILEY, Kan. - Swathers and balers have become a common site around the Fort Riley area the past few months. Those behind these machines are farmers who have leased various areas of land around ...

30 October 2020, Lower Saxony, Ronnenberg: Bales of straw, decorated with faces, lie at the edge of a field. Photo: Moritz Frankenberg/dpa (Photo by Moritz Frankenberg/picture alliance via Getty ...