Cousin Ollie snugged another bale of hay into place. Our pirate ship of timothy and clover was almost complete. “We should call these Hayos,” he said. “You know, like Legos, only bigger.” “I don’t ...

The town has renewed a lease with a local farmer that lets him cut hay from a town-owned field across the street from Berlin High School. Ryan Matson will pay the town $1 and will mow the field for ...

Farmers in Muskingum and surrounding counties are now into the haymaking season. You can see the modern equipment in the fields cutting, raking, baling and hauling the various sizes and shapes of ...

I did something last week that I haven't done in many years. I made some hay. In my other life outside the newsroom, I live on a farm where my wife and I run a bed and breakfast and raise sheep. Thus ...

Rain is a needed ingredient for growing crops. However, the frequent rains in Iowa this summer have become a challenge for hay producers planning to mow, bale and store hay. Denise Schwab, beef ...

Early pioneers used scythes and sickles to cut the hay and then piled it up with wooden forks. In the 1940s came the twine, automatic tie baler which was pulled behind a tractor and produced a 60- to ...