Nearby residents have been warned to keep their windows and doors closed while a barn fire is tackled. Cornwall Fire Service ...

Hay fires generally occur within six weeks after baling, but have been known to occur even after a year, according to a report by eHay Weekly. They begin through spontaneous combustion. Hay bale fires ...

TEUTOPOLIS, Ill. (WCIA) — While high temperatures sweeping Central Illinois this week caused air conditioning complications for many, one local farmer experienced a different side effect of the heat.

Experienced agricultural producers in the southern Great Plains know that low wind speeds, high humidity, moist hay, and hot temperatures can be a recipe for disaster. Under such a set of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Hay bales in a Newberg organic dairy spontaneously combusted Sunday, calling multiple fire districts out to the rural area. Crews from the St. Paul Fire District responded to a ...

Sep. 25—Moisture and hay are sworn enemies. Not only will wet hay grow mold that can be unhealthy for farm animals, but the microbial activity can generate so much heat that the bales will light on ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Smoke could be seen for miles in Salt Lake and Davis counties after a large barn caught fire and burned through several large bales of hay. The fire broke out Friday before 10 ...

Ruben Alvarez Jr. sits on a bale of grass hay in the warehouse at Dave’s Hay Barn. A rooster crows in the background. Ruben is waiting for his father, Ruben Alvarez Sr., to return from a hay delivery.

Firefighters from several area departments were battling a brush fire Wednesday afternoon in Bartlett that destroyed a house, spread to hay bales and threatened a barn. The Bartlett Volunteer Fire ...

Two adults were able to rescue the 9-year-old girl, who was then transported to a local hospital with serious injuries A 9-year-old girl from Wisconsin was hospitalized after a hay bale fell on top of ...

Hay is the most common form of stored feed for most beef cattle operations. A hay barn is an investment that can save money for the landowner. The percentage of moisture in hay at storage directly ...

A Thursday night fire destroyed a pole barn filled with hundreds of 1,000-pound hay bales at a Hanover Township dairy farm. "That's the hay for the winter right there," farm owner Jim Howe said as he ...