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 ...

Editor’s note: Every year for Independence Day, Agweek reporter Mikkel Pates presents an annual feature called Flags on Farms — a collection of vignettes. “There’s just something about the two that ...

School kids are talking to their neighbors and friends, asking them to drop off discarded hay wrap at participating schools for the Hay Wrap Take Back competition among 10 schools in Cherokee County.

Hotel Heubad‘s David Kompatscher says his family has provided this treatment for well over 100 years, after discovering that local farmers who slept in hay would awake “ï¬ t and full of energy.” Mind ...

Most everyone in the livestock business agrees that using plastic for baled forage is a great tool that benefits both the farmer and livestock. However, proper disposal of the plastic after it has ...

White-wrapped hay bales, often called ‘marshmallow bales,’ sit partially buried in snow next to a field on Livermore Falls Road in Farmington on the morning of Feb. 26. The rising sun illuminates the ...

CAMPAIGN TO TURN THOSE FORTUSNE AROUND. BARBARA: CALL THEM BALE BOARDS. THEY’RE POPPING UP ALL EROV SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY FARMLAN >> I GOT TO THINKING. I HAVE THE PERFECT SIGN RIGH HERE, A WRAPPED HAY ...

MOSES LAKE, Wash. — In the summer of 1977, Glen Knopp was covering his hay stacks with a sacrificial layer of baled straw to protect them against rain damage. His cousin, visiting from Canada, said ...

Farmer Dicken Crane stands beside wrapped hay bales Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020, painted with the messages "Love, Unity, Respect" and "VOTE" that he constructed at his farm in Dalton, Mass. His original ...