When shopping for bales, avoid hay, which contains seeds and ... the correct sunlight exposure for the plants you will be growing. You can place the bale on any flat surface — concrete, gravel ...

When thinking about growing crops and flowers at home ... Joel also highlights that the method works just as well with bales of hay, or in some parts of the world, bales of sugar cane stalks or corn ...

Weekly hay market reports for the week ending Oct. 5, as reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Market News Service.

Small rectangular bales should be baled ideally at no more than 20 percent moisture. Large hay packages are best baled in the 16 to 18 percent range for dry hay. “Haylage or baleage is growing ...

The average first freeze date is typically around Nov. 15, but the past couple of years, our first freeze has been earlier.

a livestock farmer from Tigithi area in Laikipia County packs bales of hay harvested from Ann Mwangi's farm. Photo by JOB WERU/Standard Farmers in Laikipia County are reaping from growing hay ...

The bales are an eighth of the hay Lawrence needs to feed his 100 cows through the winter. He and his wife Alexis worked all summer to grow it and stayed up late harvesting it -- just the two of them.