Equipment

There are days when you walk out the door in the early morning hours, before the sun is a full circle in the sky, you smell the freshly cut hay, head for the baler and think, “Man, I love my job.”

After converting three small farms in his area to cattle operations, Doug Abney of Johnson County, Indiana, had run into two problems – time and water. 

As another season of forage production draws near, manufacturers of hay production and handling equipment roll out the latest in technology and design for efficiency and productivity.

Much like the transitions other ranchers and farmers have experienced over the past 50-plus years, our evolution with hay handling here in rural Idaho has been a transition from loose hay, to small square bales, to large round and square bales.

When producers talk about precision farming, haymaking isn’t normally at the top of the conversation. I think we are all guilty of looking past haymaking in favor of more glamorous topics like tillage and seeding applications

Due to their unique set of capabilities, telehandlers are quickly becoming a popular and essential machine on hay production operations throughout the U.S.