My father, R. Alton Pitcher, deceased, grew up on a dairy farm in East Berne. The 163-acre family farm is located in the scenic Cole Hill valley, including a large home that still exists today beside ...

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 ...

For the livestock producer, high quality hay means hay that results in more milk produced, more pounds of calf, better performance, etc. High quality hay can be described as green, leafy, and free 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 ...

Southeast Australian farmers have been forced to pivot as large swathes of cropping and livestock regions deal with a spring ...

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 ...