Early pioneers used scythes and sickles to cut the hay and then piled it up with wooden forks. In the 1940s came the twine, automatic tie baler which was pulled behind a tractor and produced a 60- to ...

Photo by David Freeze - Lewis and Harrison take ceremonial ride atop the last load on the way to the barn. Rowan and surrounding areas have been busy with a bumper spring hay crop for the last two ...

That is equivalent to 23.8 bales an hour, including loading and traveling, and totalled more than 134 tonnes of forage. “We really wanted to set up this challenge on a typical hilly-country New ...