N.Ireland
Selling straw and hay on a per bale basis does not convey to farmer customers the full details of what they are actually buying.
Rural Life
Derbyshire Police was called to reports of a collision resulting in bales of hay falling from a tractor and hitting a woman in her 70s.
Dairy
Three key things are needed to aid rumen development in calves during the rearing period: water, concentrates and a...
Farmers across the country took advantage of the hot, dry weather over the past two weeks by opting to secure hay bales for their winter fodder inventories.
In between the bouts of unsettled weather that has marked June so far, there will be many anxiously awaiting the opportunity to get....
Machinery
A record number of participants took part in a silage cutting event in Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan over the June bank holiday weekend.
The scale of the 2016 harvest in Australia was caught on camera recently on a farm in Corrigin, in the state of Western Australia.
Massey Ferguson recently introduced a full-line up of grassland machinery at the EIMA machinery show in Italy, including mowers, tedders and rakes.
Fendt has recently released it's new hay and forage equipment, including tedders, rakes and a choice of either drum or disc mowers.
A contractor in Co. Wexford had a lucky escape when the tractor he was driving went on fire in a hay field.
There's been an increase in agricultural machinery and trailers with bales on the roads with the good weather.
A man in his 30s was taken to hospital on Saturday after the vehicle he was driving crashed into the back of a trailer carrying hay bales.
Agri-Business
Many farmers are housing stock around the country which has increased the demand for both hay and straw. Prices of barley straw are currently sitting at €8-15 for 4x4 bales.
The change in the weather in the past week across the country might have had an impact on these sheep who decided to show off that they are good woolly jumpers.
Silage-making has been hitting the headlines in recent weeks, but what about the tradition of square baling?
You all know the photo, Bloodstock giant Coolmore farm Stud has set another record, increasing its hay yield by 24pc from 125 bales/ac to 155 bales/ac
