When large round hay bales came along, those of us who had cut our agricultural teeth on stacking small square bales thought we’d never need to put hay bales in a stifling hot barn again.

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.

Springtime hay season is ramping up and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agent Fred Hall, Tarrant County, wants to remind producers that bales are an investment worth protecting. Hay quality is a ...

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 ...

30 October 2020, Lower Saxony, Ronnenberg: Bales of straw, decorated with faces, lie at the edge of a field. Photo: Moritz Frankenberg/dpa (Photo by Moritz Frankenberg/picture alliance via Getty ...

CROGHAN, N.Y (WKTV) — A five-year-old child trapped beneath a hay bale in a barn was declared deceased at Lewis County Hospital. On Jan. 26, around 1:35 p.m., New York State Police were called to ...

We plan to fill our hay barns with roughly 50 tons of small round bales. Nothing marks the onset of summer for me like making hay. In Kansas, we often get our cool-season meadows put up by mid-June.

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 ...

TOWN OF EDSON, Wis. (WEAU) - Crews responded to a barn fire in Chippewa County Thursday afternoon. They were called out to the fire just south of Boyd in the town of Edson. A firefighter on the scene ...

KENSINGTON, Minn. -- Three barns and 22 calves were lost in a fire Wednesday night, Jan. 31, on a farm north of Kensington.The fire apparently started when a skid loader was left idling near some ...

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 ...

It took eight fire departments about five hours to put down the flames that burned barns and round hay bales about two miles west and one and 1⁄2 miles south of Garber. Garber Fire Chief Reese Wedel ...