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 ...

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 ...

One enterprising young Lego builder has put together a working hay baler on the smaller end of the scale, as seen on Facebook. The baler is built using Lego’s Technic line of mechanical-oriented parts ...

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 ...

Learn about the history of the round baler and the many men and companies that claimed to be the first to create a functional model.

Pardon the pun, but the hay baler and modern swather are intertwined with the High Plains Journal. Today, hay equipment can be handled much easier because of greater mechanical and technology ...

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 ...

Growing up, most of our pastures had herds of cattle or a small band of horses on them. But one small pasture, close to home, was occupied by old steel and antique iron. To me, it was an imaginary ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...