NEVADA, Mo. — Up to 25 percent of the leaves on alfalfa plants can be lost during hay baling, Ryan Lock, a University of Missouri research specialist, told farmers at an alfalfa meeting held Jan. 23 ...

Alfalfa growing in the field is 50 percent stem and 50 percent leaf. Most of the feed value is in the leaf and getting those leaves into the bale is critical to maximizing relative feed value, ...

ST. JOHN – Most years, Jordan Hickel would be waiting for the right conditions to get out his baler – waiting around for the perfect humidity. But it’s 3 p.m. on a hot July day, and the Stafford ...

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 ...

Freshly baled hay with more than 20% moisture will heat up and actually reduce the energy level of the hay. There is a great misconception that once hay is “dry” and baled it is plain and devoid of ...

SISSETON, S.D. - The march of rain storms have made it a challenge to bring in the alfalfa hay crop on the Dale and Travis Rinas farm, north of Sisseton, S.D. Travis, 37, farms with his father, Dale, ...

In the dead calm of a summer night, even agriculture sleeps—but not David Hinman. Minutes past midnight, the Wheatland, Wyo., producer wakes up and checks humidity levels via weather apps, slips out ...

David Manterola is looking for green alfalfa hay that keeps its leaves. The challenge of making the perfect bale is what Manterola of Manterola Farms near Pasco says he loves about growing hay. Leaf ...

A semi-trailer loaded with big round bales of hay labored eastward on the highway. It has been a good year for hay sellers and especially so for hay consumed by horses. A friend reported that he ...