DEMAND for straw has been high over the past few years. With depressed arable incomes, many farmers now see straw as an asset they can realise in tangible cash terms through selling it, when it may ...

I was pulling the push lawn mower out of the Quonset the other day, getting ready to trim around our farmstead buildings and fences when I realized that my pants were slipping down toward my knees.

Baler twine is an essential agricultural tool to wrap and store hay, straw and silage, but at the end of its useful life, plastic twine is challenging to manage. Disposal in landfill can result in the ...

It’s long been the subject of jokes and discussions – but scientists have finally put a concrete figure on the number of possible uses for baler twine. Top brains from the Advanced People’s Research ...

“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 ...

It has been going to landfill, but P.E.I.'s Island Waste Management Corporation has begun a project it hopes will see baler twine recycled into items such as flower pots, plastic lumber and even car ...