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 ...
ESSEX, Vt. (WCAX/Gray News) - A Vermont farmer is searching for answers after dozens of his hay bales were vandalized. Ethan Lawrence of Lawrence Family Farms said he was mowing a field when he ...
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 ...
As growers finish cutting of hay crops, now is a good time to do preventative maintenance tasks that can boost farm profits and protect farm workers, says a safety research associate and lecturer from ...
For New Hampshire farmers who grow hay, the past couple of years have presented a bit of a Goldilocks situation. Last summer was too dry. This summer has been too wet. And that's a bad ending for this ...