When large round hay bales came along, those of us who had cut our agricultural teeth on stacking small square bales thought we’d never need to put hay bales in a stifling hot barn again.

Ruben Alvarez Jr. sits on a bale of grass hay in the warehouse at Dave’s Hay Barn. A rooster crows in the background. Ruben is waiting for his father, Ruben Alvarez Sr., to return from a hay delivery.

Hay is the most common form of stored feed for most beef cattle operations. A hay barn is an investment that can save money for the landowner. The percentage of moisture in hay at storage directly ...

“It hadn’t been used for a couple of years, so the twine-tie square baler was sold on an internet auction.” Small square bales of hay are a lot of work, but nearly essential for most livestock ...

Hay continues to be a highly valued commodity as livestock industries face another possibly dry summer. Properly stored hay can reduce nutritive losses, along with improving an operation's bottom-line ...

We plan to fill our hay barns with roughly 50 tons of small round bales. Nothing marks the onset of summer for me like making hay. In Kansas, we often get our cool-season meadows put up by mid-June.

Pardon the pun, but the hay baler and modern swather are intertwined with the High Plains Journal. Today, hay equipment can be handled much easier because of greater mechanical and technology ...

On Thursday morning at around 7:16 CAL FIRE SLO and SLO County Fire responded to a small commercial fire on Cal Poly's campus. Some hay bales inside a 5000 square foot barn began smoldering at the ...

Be careful how you answer that question. Cost and expense are two different things. Everyone worries about the expense of building barns for hay storage. Yes, barns are a big capital expense.

It took eight fire departments about five hours to put down the flames that burned barns and round hay bales about two miles west and one and 1⁄2 miles south of Garber. Garber Fire Chief Reese Wedel ...

Fire crews were called out Friday, June 20 to fight a fire at the Iowa State University Dairy Barn. Smoke was reported coming from a hay storage building at 52540 260th St. early that morning, and the ...