It's surprisingly effective, turning the bale into a kind of natural planter. The Garden Family on YouTube offers a great ...

In Whitley County, as in most of northern Indiana, the predominant crops we grow include corn, soybeans, wheat and hay, with hay as our topic today. Hay is visually different than straw (the mature ...

What started as a dry summer and a borrowed baler has transformed into a growing hay business shipping across the country for ...

If you were trying to grow a water-intensive crop like hay for cattle, for instance, you probably wouldn't go to the middle of the desert in Arizona, a state experiencing a water crisis so bad ...

A ton of hay went for $135 in 2019. In 2021, agricultural producers paid $195 a ton. This year? It’s $325 a ton. The price of fertilizer for growing hay and other crops has spiked to levels not ...

Although the design and water sustainability varies from system to system, these technologically advanced setups have the potential to grow far richer animal feed using just a fraction of the water ...

One of your articles on the over-allocated river notes that “some farmers say it makes sense to keep growing hay because it’s lucrative.” That’s true, if the cost of the water is near zero.

The results of a recent economic study of Grand County irrigators show that certain water conservation programs may be worth it for irrigators who grow hay but not for those who grow cows. In 2020, a ...