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 ...

Rain is always a wild card when deciding the right time to mow hay. “Pop-up showers and storms are a risk this time of the year,” says University of Missouri Extension agronomist Hunter Lovewell. This ...

I did something last week that I haven't done in many years. I made some hay. In my other life outside the newsroom, I live on a farm where my wife and I run a bed and breakfast and raise sheep. Thus ...

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 ...