Farming is hard work but can be exciting and picturesque, especially for kids. Family farms are fewer these days, but plenty of grownups still cherish memories of sunny, sweaty summers amid crops and ...

Hay production may no longer be the most efficient or profitable use of your time and resources. A Missouri forage specialist ...

Drought has a crispy, crunchy sound. Walking through a hay field in Columbiana County, that’s the sound you hear. Hear it in ...

As producers prepare for winter weather and take stock in their hay supplies, it is important to consider hay feeding management. We know that hay feeding reduces financial efficiency. In fact, OSU ...

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 ...

I am a regular reader of your weekly column. Thank you for the good work you are doing in educating us on many topics in livestock keeping. Like any other farmer, I have had great challenges with feed ...

The severe drought Maine is hitting dairy farmers hard when it comes to hay harvests. SEBAGO, Maine — Central and southern ...

Severe drought throughout Newfoundland and Labrador and Atlantic Canada means there is a shortage of hay available to farmers ...

Last summer we put up lighter bales than many other years. I recall one particularly bad year when I dropped by the local grain elevator and asked if they'd weigh just one bale, so I could find out if ...