“As hay season continues, I see a lot of large round hay bales being stored outside,” says University of Missouri Extension livestock field specialist Patrick Davis. If hay is not stored properly ...

John Deere, Olathe, Kansas, has launched the weave automation for select round balers that helps streamline the baling process. With this automation, the operator simply places the windrow between the ...

Get ready to spend a lot less time in your hay fields. Last week Vermeer unveiled the first continuous round baler (CRB). The baler is currently in the development stages and will allow producers to ...

After baling 12,000 large round bales during the 2025 hay season, farmer and contractor Sam Kele of Hensley Park is entering ...

When it’s haying time, everything can spiral out of control. That field you thought needed a few more days before cutting instantly became a carpet of purple blooms. Or the humidity is too high to ...

An curved arrow pointing right. This Single Round Bale Wrapper wraps hay bales in plastic in seconds. The farming machine first tilts forward to load the bale on the wrapping 'table', starting the ...

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Farms in Kansas grow a variety of hay, from legumes to grasses, and storing and preserving that hay is important. “Different types of hay can have very different levels of protein and energy because ...

When large round hay bales came along, those of us who had cut our agricultural teeth on stacking small square bales thought we’d never need to put hay bales in a stifling hot barn again.