A lot goes into making high-quality hay. Perhaps the primary way to produce the kind of hay that will give top milk and meat production is to cut the hay at the optimum stage of maturity. Whether it’s ...

Cherokee County (Oklahoma) Farm Bureau’s Hay Wrap Take Back, a five-month friendly competition among several county schools, ...

In 2010, the Madison County Phase I board approved the purchase of an in-line hay wrapper for rental use by local farmers. For producers to get familiar with baling and wrapping high-moisture hay and ...

School kids are talking to their neighbors and friends, asking them to drop off discarded hay wrap at participating schools for the Hay Wrap Take Back competition among 10 schools in Cherokee County.

Net wrapping bales may be more cost- and time-efficient than wrapping with twine. Although net wrapping isn't cheap — equipment costs $3,000 to $4,000 and plastic net 75 cents to $1 more per bale than ...