cut hay and sell off the baler for at least $250 a tonne ex farm is rare in the hay game but there are complications for both buyers and sellers this coming season. Last week the haymaking season ...

Davidson said most hay in the region is a combination of alfalfa and grass, and the optimal time for a first cutting is when the alfalfa is at one-tenth bloom. That’s causing local hay producers to ...

FARGO - Now is the time to start cutting hay, North Dakota State University livestock and rangeland specialists advise. Although hay usually isn't harvested for the first time for another two weeks, ...

FIRST-CUT HAY season has passed. The fields you see being cut now are likely those whose farmers snatched the right moment between spring rain storms for those minimum three dry days needed to cut, ...

Second-cutting fescue makes quality hay when stems and seed heads were cut earlier. Farmers cutting fescue hay don’t get many second chances to make quality hay. This is a one-in-five year, says Craig ...

LITTLE ROCK — Record rainfall from one-after-another storms in September and October has halved the hay crop of some Arkansas farmers, according to state forage experts. The Cooperative Extension ...

Prices have gone up $100 per tonne in some markets as Victoria and South Australia reduce the area cut for hay by up to 50% Australia is facing severe fodder shortage with high quality hay “more ...

I was out running the other day and passed a field of freshly cut hay. I stopped for a minute and just enjoyed the smell. The smell of new-mown hay makes me think of my grandfather Charles Henshaw, a ...

Island Nature Trust has been encouraging farmers to cut their hay after July 15th for the last four years voluntarily but the new program provides a financial incentive. (Donna Giberson/Island Nature ...

CARROLL TOWNSHIP - There's plenty of hay for all 14 horses to eat at Riders Unlimited's Oak Harbor facility, thanks to a Fremont farmer who donates bales to the nonprofit group. But it hasn't been as ...