MFA-Linn was recently awarded $10,000 to purchase a baler to be used for compressing agriculture plastic wrap waste left from hay bales. Organizers say this is a first of its kind project in the state ...

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 ...

MONETT, Mo. - Cattle producers can do a lot of work to bale hay only to see quality lost during storage and feeding because bale wrapping is inadequate, according to Rob Kallenbach, University of ...

When driving in Kansas, it is easy to spot big, round hay bales that are wrapped in plastic and ready to be fed to cattle. When it is time to feed the bale, some producers put the hay with the wrap on ...

A compostable bale wrap that could halve agriculture’s plastic waste is making its European debut at Agritechnica 2025.

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.