Jim Bird's 1,000-acre hay bale farm regularly draws attention from motorists along U.S. Highway 43 near Demopolis. So the city decided to honor its resident hay bale artist with its first-ever Hay ...

When I was a regional reporter for the Grand Forks Herald, I heard about a farm family near Cummings, N.D., who baled hay at night. I thought that would make an interesting story, so I told my editor ...

Historically, putting up hay was an arduous process that involved hand labor with scythes and pitchforks. Later, horse-drawn sickle mowers helped make it easier for cutting the crop, and horse-drawn ...

Every homesteader’s goal is to be as self-sustaining as possible. In trying to reach that goal, many of us raise animals. It’s difficult to keep many animals without hay, and conventional thinking ...

ARCHDALE, N.C. — For farmer Jay Hohn, the day begins early on his 80-acre farm — and often behind the wheel of a tractor. “I started farming doing row crops,” Hohn said. “I did that for several years, ...

OXFORD - The saying goes that you make hay when the sun shines. So, come this Saturday and Sunday, whether it's 80 degrees or 100, Bill Stockman of rural Oxford who owns 19 vintage hay balers invites ...

Let's start this off with a statement of fact about my opinion: I greatly dislike heat. Now, given the rough winter we endured what seems like a minute ago, I've mostly kept quiet with my complaints ...

For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

Photo A: The author’s grandson, Austin, experiments with using the baler to form a bale. When you build your own wooden hay baler, you can hand bale hay without the need for equipment, so you can ...