Officials in Stearns County responded to a medical emergency in Melrose Township, MN, where a man had gotten his hand stuck in a Hay Baler. 56 year old Glenn Hinnenkamp of Melrose was working on his ...

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 ...

For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Every homesteader’s goal is to be as self-sustaining as possible. In trying to reach that goal, many of us raise animals. It’s difficult to keep many animals without hay, and conventional thinking ...

OXFORD - The saying goes that you make hay when the sun shines. So, come this Saturday and Sunday, whether it's 80 degrees or 100, Bill Stockman of rural Oxford who owns 19 vintage hay balers invites ...

GLEN - State Police are asking residents to keep an eye out for a stolen hay baler. The red and yellow New Holland baler was stolen from a Van Epps Road location in the overnight hours between July 19 ...

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, ...

As a result, there is a wide range of second-hand options out there for anyone looking into used New Holland square balers. To get some advice on what to look out for on what are arguably some of the ...