“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 ...

ESSEX, Vt. (WCAX/Gray News) - A Vermont farmer is searching for answers after dozens of his hay bales were vandalized. Ethan Lawrence of Lawrence Family Farms said he was mowing a field when he ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lawrence said the bales were worth about $75 each. Now, he says he’ll be lucky to get $5 a pop. Growing new hay this late in the season is virtually out of the question, and buying new hay to feed ...