Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CLITHERALL, MINN. – Once in a while, on a summer afternoon, my husband will ask if our young son and I are ready to help with the ...

Smaller bales lose less leaves and provide more palatable forage for cows and horses than large round bales Obermann says. “These bales require manual labor. Automatic equipment does not work for ...

Dec. 23—As far as livestock are concerned, there is no right answer when it comes to choosing round or square hay bales on a homestead. They will happily munch on baled hay and feed regardless of its ...

“It hadn’t been used for a couple of years, so the twine-tie square baler was sold on an internet auction.” Small square bales of hay are a lot of work, but nearly essential for most livestock ...

We plan to fill our hay barns with roughly 50 tons of small round bales. Nothing marks the onset of summer for me like making hay. In Kansas, we often get our cool-season meadows put up by mid-June.

In the early 1970s, the operation became known as Triple D Ranch, a name inspired by the initials shared across multiple ...

CLITHERALL, MINN. – Once in a while, on a summer afternoon, my husband will ask if our young son and I are ready to help with the small square hay bales. Hardly anybody makes small square bales ...

A Monroe farmer loads hay bales onto a trailer while working in a field in 2009. Credit: Gabor Degre / BDN As far as livestock are concerned, there is no right answer when it comes to choosing round ...