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 ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Rain and wet fields have slowed the alfalfa hay harvest and crop spraying in Minnesota. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, only 3.5 days were suitable for ...

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 ...