One enterprising young Lego builder has put together a working hay baler on the smaller end of the scale, as seen on Facebook. The baler is built using Lego’s Technic line of mechanical-oriented parts ...

“It hadn’t been used for a couple of years, so the twine-tie square baler was sold on an internet auction.” Small square bales of hay are a lot of work, but nearly essential for most livestock ...

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 ...

This McCormick-Deering mini baler sold for $1,400 last Saturday at an auction in east-central Kansas. Here’s the story Thanks for registering for Farm Journal Mobile. I agree to receive text messages, ...

Self propelled balers have been in the news this week. Vermeer announced they were introducing the world’s 1st self propelled round baler, their prototype ZR5. For ...

It's summer. Fields throughout western Colorado have been cut, and the hay baled, using various forms of modern technology — small bales, large bales, round and square bales, stack wagons and people ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A July 28 article, “Hay Day,” gave a very good summary of the local Swiss Pioneer Preservation Association’s annual Hay Day. Demonstrations of the old ways of haymaking with hand tools and the changes ...