Once upon a time, hay bales were the norm when it came to harvesting hay. Now hay is chopped into wagons and stored in long “white worms.” There are still some bales, but they are huge, round bales ...

Stacking hay bales is a stop-and-go process, further held up when the bale gets stuck on the loader forks. In less than five hours, Lester Langeland and son Marlin of Marne, Mich., attached a ...

As snow falls and winter descends, a lot of agricultural work is slowing down. But for farmers with livestock, they’ve got to make sure their animals have enough to eat through the long cold months.

A semi-trailer loaded with big round bales of hay labored eastward on the highway. It has been a good year for hay sellers and especially so for hay consumed by horses. A friend reported that he ...

WAHOO — Tom Donahue knows how costly mistakes can be in one of his favorite Saunders County Fair competitions. For six straight years, Donahue and his teammates had finished second in the men’s ...

Last summer we put up lighter bales than many other years. I recall one particularly bad year when I dropped by the local grain elevator and asked if they’d weigh just one bale, so I could find out if ...