SWEDONA, Ill. — While the heydays of harvest are just around the corner, one golden crop is looking greener than ever for area farmers. Droughts across the great plains are bumping up prices 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 ...

“Hay harvest is approaching, and producing high-quality hay reduces cattle supplementation,” says Patrick Davis, University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist. Davis discusses harvest ...

If you’re a hay farmer with an iPad, you can now use your Apple tablet as your in-cab display for your Harvest Tec 400T Automatic Applicator system. The two systems connect via Bluetooth, allowing ...

Improperly curing hay made from certain sweet clover varieties such as white and yellow sweet clover can cause severe and often fatal hemorrhages in livestock such as cattle, sheep and goats.

The difference between good hay and poor hay (with less nutrient content or moldy and dusty) is primarily timing of harvest. Glenn Shewmaker, state forage specialist, University of Idaho, says the ...