Let's start this off with a statement of fact about my opinion: I greatly dislike heat. Now, given the rough winter we endured what seems like a minute ago, I've mostly kept quiet with my complaints ...

For farmer Jay Hohn, the day begins early on his 80-acre farm — and often behind the wheel of a tractor. “I started farming doing row crops,” Hohn said. “I did that for several years, then after that, ...

Photo A: The author’s grandson, Austin, experiments with using the baler to form a bale. When you build your own wooden hay baler, you can hand bale hay without the need for equipment, so you can ...

Pardon the pun, but the hay baler and modern swather are intertwined with the High Plains Journal. Today, hay equipment can be handled much easier because of greater mechanical and technology ...

Another common failure point with round hay balers is the pickup. The pickup mechanism feeds hay into your baler, and when it ...