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 ...

Weed control, storage techniques and equipment each affect the quality of hay being produced. Ward Laboratories recently hosted a webinar discussing producing high quality hay. Panelists were Sarah ...

FREMONT COUNTY – It’s been a breakneck six weeks, but this morning, 84-year-old Jack Malmberg can take a breather. Malmberg and his crew — four people and 12 Belgian horses — last night finished ...

I had a dream the other night. It was a hot summer day and I was in the hay mow stacking bales. I could feel the chaff on my sweaty skin, hear the chatter of the elevator chain bringing up the bales ...

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 ...