Dec. 23—As far as livestock are concerned, there is no right answer when it comes to choosing round or square hay bales on a homestead. They will happily munch on baled hay and feed regardless of its ...

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.

CLITHERALL, MINN. – Once in a while, on a summer afternoon, my husband will ask if our young son and I are ready to help with the small square hay bales. Hardly anybody makes small square bales ...

Nowadays a lot of farmers use round bales of hay. They’re huge. Some of them can weigh over a thousand pounds. One of the perks is they take less time to dry between cutting the hay and baling it.

Glenn and Toni Obermann took Champion and Reserve Champion awards in alfalfa and grass classes 4 to 8, and Champion in alfalfa classes 1 to 3, according to Alan Freeman, agriculture stewardship and ...

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 ...

Experienced agricultural producers in the southern Great Plains know that low wind speeds, high humidity, moist hay, and hot temperatures can be a recipe for disaster. Under such a set of ...

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.

“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 ...

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.