State hay market summaries for the week ending Oct. 4, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Market News Service.

April is winding down and May is just around the corner. Forage producers are getting ready to start fertilizing and the subsequent harvesting of their warm-season grasses for hay. I have been asked ...

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Poor spring weather could throw another curve at farmers already behind in the count on crop planting. Alongside the fields ready for corn and soybean seed could be hay crops ...

Joe Dice couldn’t get to the phone Monday morning. He was too busy making his first cut of alfalfa and grass hay and baling it at his place on Silt Mesa. “Last year, it was really spotty. We hardly ...

Lawrence said the bales were worth about $75 each. Now, he says he’ll be lucky to get $5 a pop. Growing new hay this late in the season is virtually out of the question, and buying new hay to feed ...

As growers finish cutting of hay crops, now is a good time to do preventative maintenance tasks that can boost farm profits and protect farm workers, says a safety research associate and lecturer from ...

EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - I’ve had more people than typical ask me about harvesting hay late this fall. It’s true that many livestock producers will regularly bale hay late in the fall. Others plan to get ...

ESSEX, Vt. (WCAX/Gray News) - A Vermont farmer is searching for answers after dozens of his hay bales were vandalized. Ethan Lawrence of Lawrence Family Farms said he was mowing a field when he ...