Silage is fermented, high-moisture stored fodder which can be fed to cattle, sheep and other cud-chewing animals. What does a farmer require? To prepare your crop for silage, it must be chopped into ...

This week’s Machinery Pete “Pete’s Pick of the Week” shines a spotlight on used hay equipment and a unique custom-painted tractor. On Thursday, the Juniper Valley Ranch Auction in Juniper, Idaho, ...

Photo by David Freeze - Lewis and Harrison take ceremonial ride atop the last load on the way to the barn. Rowan and surrounding areas have been busy with a bumper spring hay crop for the last two ...

Coker and his wife, Jamie, got into hay farming by accident. When they married in 1979, Jamie had two horses. Because they couldn’t find hay for them, the Cokers planted ten acres in hay. Having no ...

Photo A: The author’s grandson, Austin, experiments with using the baler to form a bale. When you build your own wooden hay baler, you can hand bale hay without the need for equipment, so you can ...

The South Central New York Ag Team and the South Central New York Dairy & Field Crops Team of Cornell Cooperative Extension will hold a hay making workshop 6:30-8:30 p.m. Aug. 20 at CNY Farm Supply, ...

If you didn’t make hay, what could you do instead? Carson Roberts, Missouri extension state forage specialist, says the consensus in the beef industry is making your own hay is the cheapest way to ...

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.