ROCK VALLEY, Iowa. - Big supplies. Poor quality. That summarizes the hay market in 2018, says Paul McGill, owner-manager of Rock Valley (Iowa) Hay Auction Co. "Every year is different," McGill says, ...

Robert Schriefer has a bunch of big hay bales to sell, but he's not optimistic. "Everyone around here had a good hay crop," the Golden Valley, N.D., producer says. After one of the wettest, greenest ...

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, ...

In order to achieve this, many growers are now harvesting and storing alfalfa or grass silage as baleage (50 - 60 percent moisture baled hay). Some advantages include: less drying timing, smaller ...

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 ...

Perhaps more deeply than in any other profession, farmers lives are tied to the rhythms of the land. Winter's thaw and the warming soil, the hope that the spring rains will come, the heat of summer ...

Hay is becoming in short supply in some areas of West Central Texas and the Rolling Plains. Reports from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension district reports indicated not much hay was available for sale in ...