ST. JOHN – Most years, Jordan Hickel would be waiting for the right conditions to get out his baler – waiting around for the perfect humidity. But it’s 3 p.m. on a hot July day, and the Stafford ...

Photo A: The author’s grandson, Austin, experiments with using the baler to form a bale. When you build your own wooden hay baler, you can hand bale hay without the need for equipment, so you can ...

There is nothing that brings back memories of the farm life days of my youth more than the smell of freshly baled hay in late summer. When the season is nearly over, when hot August days bring the ...

ALPENA, S.D. (KELO) — Seeing hay bales alongside the road isn’t uncommon in South Dakota, but on a strip of road in Alpena, these bales look a little different. No one is quite sure when the trend ...