“Hay harvest is approaching, and producing high-quality hay reduces cattle supplementation,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist. Davis discusses harvest ...

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 ...

Forage quality should be a primary component of setting goals for hay harvesting. "Plant stage and maturity at the time of cutting directly impact the quality of the final hay, whether grass, alfalfa ...

For New Hampshire farmers who grow hay, the past couple of years have presented a bit of a Goldilocks situation. Last summer was too dry. This summer has been too wet. And that's a bad ending for this ...

Hay equipment is being greased, tractors are being fueled, and hay producers are keeping an eye toward the sky in hopes of a few days of precipitation free weather to harvest hay. In the spring of the ...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — With his cattle ranch threatened by a deepening drought, Jim Stanko isn’t cheered by the coming storm signaled by the sound of thunder. “Thunder means lightning, and ...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. -- With his cattle ranch threatened by a deepening drought, Jim Stanko isn't cheered by the coming storm signaled by the sound of thunder. "Thunder means lightning, and ...

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 ...

The difference between good hay and poor hay (with less nutrient content or moldy and dusty) is primarily timing of harvest. Glenn Shewmaker, state forage specialist, University of Idaho, says the ...

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 ...

Nothing says summer in the Berkshires like haying season. Farmers are in the fields mowing, raking, tedding and baling grass, leaving behind round bales of dried hay or wrapped bales of haylage — the ...