Harvesting hay has gone from a labor-intensive practice of using sickles and wooden forks to balers that compress hay into round and square bales.

He said an alternative to storing forage as dry hay is to let the cut forage wilt to 50 percent moisture content and allow it to ferment to silage. This is done using an individual bale wrapper or an ...

Harvesting hay has gone from a labor-intensive practice of using sickles and wooden forks to balers that compress hay into round and square bales.