Before huge machines pressed hay into 1-ton bales, it was stacked in the field and had to be moved by hand. And before horse-drawn mowers cut a field quickly, it had to be cut by hand with a scythe.

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 ...

When I was a child growing up in Union Mills, I had a great love of horses. It started, I think, before I could walk. Some of my earliest recollections involve being placed on a pony’s back and riding ...

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, ...

TOWNER, N.D.--"People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" is the old adage warning folks who are vulnerable not to attack others. I'd add that ranchers in glass tractors shouldn't pull hay ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Firefighters are battling a large fire involving approximately 1,100 tons of hay and farming equipment in Fresno County, according to fire officials. Fresno County Fire says ...

Farmers in Muskingum and surrounding counties are now into the haymaking season. You can see the modern equipment in the fields cutting, raking, baling and hauling the various sizes and shapes of ...