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 ...

uring my husband’s and my recent trip to the West Coast, we watched farmers making hay in hundreds of fields beside the highways. We saw small rectangular and large round bales lying in the fields – ...

Another common failure point with round hay balers is the pickup. The pickup mechanism feeds hay into your baler, and when it ...

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, ...

In 2010, the Madison County Phase I board approved the purchase of an in-line hay wrapper for rental use by local farmers. For producers to get familiar with baling and wrapping high-moisture hay and ...