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 ...

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 ...

It’s harvest time for farmers in KELOLAND and one family likes to have a lot of fun in the field. Last week, while the Prunty family was taking in some beans, Adam Prunty caught his brother-in-law ...

Ryan Tammaro, 13, uses a tedder to help dry out hay on his family’s farm where they raise beef cattle. Down Home Farm has struggled to harvest enough hay from rain-soaked, muddy, weedy fields this ...

A smart equipment purchase decision is to buy machinery that will deliver the best field efficiency in harvesting the required amount of hay for the most economical price. It also is wise to compare ...