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, ...

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 ...

The old expression, “Let’s make hay while the sun shines,” comes from our rural past when farms took advantage of the early summer months to harvest hay. Before the age of the internal-combustion ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Poor spring weather could throw another curve at farmers already behind in the count on crop planting. Alongside the fields ready for corn and soybean seed could be hay crops ...

HOUSTON -- At the Imhoff Ranch in Grimes County, three generations toil from dawn to dusk harvesting hay with what amounts to Texas-sized lawnmowers. Patriarch Joe Imhoff is equal parts farmer and ...

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 ...

Every now and then passengers taking off or landing at Bush Intercontinental Airport notice some bales of hay -significant numbers of bales -on the airport grounds. If they were to ask, they'd learn ...

FARGO - Anyone planning to harvest Conservation Reserve Program fields for hay this year should do so as soon as possible, according to Kevin Sedivec, North Dakota State University Extension Service ...

DUBLIN — The public can do old-fashioned harvest activities such as making butter and ice cream by hand, riding on a hay wagon, and weaving cloth at Dublin’s Harvest Faire from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, ...

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 ...