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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Nowadays a lot of farmers use round bales of hay. They’re huge. Some of them can weigh over a thousand pounds. One of the perks is they take less time to dry between cutting the hay and baling it.

The BiG Pack 870 High Speed (HS) HDP is the newest large square baler with Krone’s unique MultiBale technology. The baler produces 2’7” x 2’3” bales with the ability to tie up to eight small bales ...

A baler is a large piece of farm machinery that doesn’t move that fast on the road, but it is leading Agco’s Hesston plant to strong growth. On Thursday, the plant, which has been making square balers ...

A cowboy & his dogs on the back tell the story of how tiring, time consuming & dangerous this job can be.Tyler Westhoff (in photo) & his co worker sat down exhausted one afternoon in September 2017 ...

Kansas—This past week, demand during the first week of the year remained steady. Product movement increased slightly in ...