Butternut squash, Roma tomatoes and basil are shown successfully growing from the hay bale garden through summer into early fall. Notice the fruit of the vining squash (lower right) and upright ...

Storing big round hay bales by lining them up along the fence row may be easy, but it is not economical. Baled forage probably constitutes the highest percentage of winter feed cost we have ...

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Fence repair work appears to be the cause of a grass fire that burned eight hay bales Monday, according to the Jamestown (N.D.) Rural Fire Department.

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“If you bale at 10 percent, the hay will have an RFV of 140. If you bale the same field of alfalfa at 16 percent moisture, you can increase RFV about 40 points.” The same is true for yield.

During the summer when we were stacking bales in the haymow, we built a vertical chute for the two openings in the floor where we threw the hay down.

Fence posts, pallets, or old tires can keep bale bottoms drier and reduce loss. A relatively inexpensive and effective storage technique is to place hay on rock pads (as displayed in the image above).

If hay is to be stored outside, it is desirable to locate the storage site close to the feeding area because bales become more difficult to handle as they weather.

ROCK VALLEY, IA (KELO) — Firefighters from two states were called in to help battle a hay bale blaze in Northwest Iowa over the weekend. The Rock Valley Fire Department says it happened 9 miles ...