ARCHDALE, N.C. — For farmer Jay Hohn, the day begins early on his 80-acre farm — and often behind the wheel of a tractor. “I started farming doing row crops,” Hohn said. “I did that for several years, ...

Let's start this off with a statement of fact about my opinion: I greatly dislike heat. Now, given the rough winter we endured what seems like a minute ago, I've mostly kept quiet with my complaints ...

A July 28 article, “Hay Day,” gave a very good summary of the local Swiss Pioneer Preservation Association’s annual Hay Day. Demonstrations of the old ways of haymaking with hand tools and the changes ...

Every homesteader’s goal is to be as self-sustaining as possible. In trying to reach that goal, many of us raise animals. It’s difficult to keep many animals without hay, and conventional thinking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) — A Kernersville farmer was able to escape a scary situation on Monday afternoon when one of his pieces ...

It is farm safety week and hay balers are the latest equipment to come in for some attention. A recent survey by the Kondinin Group found two commonly-used hay balers failed to meet industry safety ...

A farm manager has developed a machine, the DewPoint 6110, that frees farmers from relying on Mother Nature to make their hay suitable for baling. Until Dave Staheli and his firm Staheli West, Cedar ...

Cumberland farmer Justin Birch was getting his hay baler ready for use Sunday afternoon when a little bit of routine maintenance turned into a life-threatening crisis. Birch, 30, a military veteran ...

A west Gippsland man was flown to Melbourne yesterday when his legs were crushed in a farm accident. The man was working on a jammed hay baler at his Warragul property when his legs became caught in ...