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A CLAAS tedder. (Courtesy photo.)
Ag Solutions, Alfalfa, Equipment, Machinery, New Products

New CLAAS hay tools to be available in 2025

CLAAS is set to unveil new tedders and mowers in time for the first cuttings in 2025 with new innovation included with models. Read More

Extra forage can be baled into late summer and early fall, but the hay’s lower nutrient levels later in the season might not be worth the time and expense. (Photo: Todd Johnson, OSU Agriculture)
Crops, Forage Crops, Hay Range Pasture

Buy or bale: Run these numbers to calculate hay costs

Ag News, Corn, Disaster, Fire, Lacey Vilhauer, Machinery, Oklahoma, Regional Roundup, Southern Region

Nowakowski Farms’ barn destroyed by fire



Round hay bale (Photo courtesy MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.)

Proper outside large round bale storage reduces hay losses

Information gathered from testing hay helps producers plan their supplementation strategy for the cattle cycle.(Courtesy photo.)

Kansan admits defrauding Montana rancher in hay scam

Flooded Iowa field (Photo: Iowa State University Extension and Outreach)

Forage specialist shares advice on assessment and recovery following flooding

  • By Shelby Gruss │ Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
This time of year, pop-up showers and storms are a risk to hay that has been mowed but not yet baled. Keep an eye on weather forecasts and understand how different types of rainfall affect cut hay, says MU Extension agronomist Hunter Lovewell. (Photo by Linda Geist.)

Is rained-on hay still good?

Despite record low hay inventories in Texas in 2023, prospects for higher yields this hay season are being fueled by heavy rainfall across major production regions of Texas, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts. (Texas A&M AgriLife)

Rainfall setting up favorable Texas hay prospects

The Massey Ferguson 1 series round baler delivers efficiency, quality, and operator comfort with the rugged dependability that North American hay producers demand. The round baler, which was announced in August, was engineered in Hesston, Kansas. (Photo courtesy of Business Wire.)

Preseason hay equipment maintenance

Hay bales of all kinds and sizes were collected and stacked in four Animal Supply Points operated by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in response to the Smokehouse Creek, Windy Deuce and Grapevine Creek fires. (Sam Craft/Texas A&M AgriLife)

Moving into the next stage of Panhandle wildfire recovery

Large round bales in a field near Dodge City, Kansas. (Journal photo by Dave Bergmeier.)

75 years of change found in hay industry