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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Most of Obermann’s bales weigh 50 to 60 pounds. “I do not bale 90-pound bales because no one wants to buy moldy hay,” he says. “Bales that tight and that heavy simply cannot breathe and could mold.” ...

Hay fires generally occur within six weeks after baling, but have been known to occur even after a year, according to a report by eHay Weekly. They begin through spontaneous combustion. Hay bale fires ...

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.