Hay harvest has presented a potential work hazard since its inception. During the period when hay primarily was harvested as square bales, it wasn’t uncommon for a man to lose an arm or hand resulting ...

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.

Nowadays a lot of farmers use round bales of hay. They’re huge. Some of them can weigh over a thousand pounds. One of the perks is they take less time to dry between cutting the hay and baling it.

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 ...

Don Larson demonstrates how the SwingSpear attachment for tractors and loaders efficiently manages hay bales on his farm in Fruitland, Wash. FRUITLAND, Wash. — Normally, when a hay farmer picks up two ...

An curved arrow pointing right. This Single Round Bale Wrapper wraps hay bales in plastic in seconds. The farming machine first tilts forward to load the bale on the wrapping 'table', starting the ...