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, ...

Robert Schriefer has a bunch of big hay bales to sell, but he's not optimistic. "Everyone around here had a good hay crop," the Golden Valley, N.D., producer says. After one of the wettest, greenest ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Poor spring weather could throw another curve at farmers already behind in the count on crop planting. Alongside the fields ready for corn and soybean seed could be hay crops ...

The Trump administration’s trade wars have cost Illinois farmers dearly and many do not anticipate making a profit from this ...

ROCK VALLEY, Iowa. - Big supplies. Poor quality. That summarizes the hay market in 2018, says Paul McGill, owner-manager of Rock Valley (Iowa) Hay Auction Co. "Every year is different," McGill says, ...

Perhaps more deeply than in any other profession, farmers lives are tied to the rhythms of the land. Winter's thaw and the warming soil, the hope that the spring rains will come, the heat of summer ...