Every year, hay producers in southwest Missouri are faced with a dilemma that puts the practice of harvesting quality forage in jeopardy. “In this region, much of the grass hay and alfalfa needs to be ...

After developing a strong aversion for wrapping bales in the field where the baler dropped them, Geoff Eyre wasn’t a fan of the somewhat tedious job of collecting wrapped rounds and steadily loading ...

From a distance, neighbouring farmers checking the back 40 would see little black dots in the paddocks that might resemble cows grazing, evenly spaced. But as they approached, they would see the round ...

He was commenting on the differences between pit and bale silage for dairy farms and said that each method produced different quality silage and affected how paddocks were rotated through this peak ...

Having rolled grass into a neat round bale of hay or silage, it makes sense to dispense it neatly too. Peter Hill looks at equipment that can do just that. For many farmers, a cutter that simply ...

LARGE, round bales of silage, tightly-wrapped in polythene, are so much a feature of today's countryside that we don't notice them until they are stacked to make a "snowman" or similar figure to catch ...

The farmer’s job with regard to round bales is straightforward enough — ensure the crows and the mice don’t have it all their way, and try to have a decent bit of silage left for the cattle come ...

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Video footage has captured the raw power of a the River Teifi in Wales as a large round bale of silage, which can weigh up to a tonne, is thrown along in the torrent. The footage was captured on the ...