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Hay requires protection from the weather, and is optimally stored inside buildings, [31]: 89 but weather protection is also provided in other ways involving outdoor storage, either in haystacks or in large tight bales (round or rectangular); these methods all depend on the surface of an outdoor mass of hay (stack or bale) taking the hit of the ...
A baler or hay baler is a piece of farm machinery used to compress a cut and raked crop (such as hay, cotton, flax straw, salt marsh hay, or silage) into compact bales that are easy to handle, transport, and store. Often, bales are configured to dry and preserve some intrinsic (e.g. the nutritional) value of the plants bundled.
Bale spears can often move both round and square large bales. [3] [4] Bale squeezes are used with bales that are wrapped for silage, [5] large piles of large and small square bales, [6] as well as a special squeeze that can be used to unroll large round bales for winter feeding. [7] Bale handlers with hooks are used to move large and small ...
Alfalfa is a perennial forage legume which normally lives four to eight years, but can live more than 20 years, depending on variety and climate. [4] The plant grows to a height of up to 1 metre ( 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet), and has a deep root system, sometimes growing to a depth of more than 15 m (49 ft) to reach groundwater.
Ebay's stock price rose nearly 10% on Wednesday — one of its largest single-day increases in years — increasing the company's market cap by about $3 billion to $33 billion.
Cases of tularemia, also known as “rabbit fever," are on the rise in the U.S., according to a new report from the CDC. The report identifies symptoms and the groups most at risk.
A Texas teen is accused of killing a classmate’s show goat by force-feeding it pesticide. Aubrey Vanlandingham, 17, is charged with cruelty to livestock animals, a felony, according to court ...
Hay hooks stuck into a haystack Two hay hooks and some baling twine. Hay bucking, or "bucking hay", is a type of manual labor where small square bales, ranging in weight from about 50 to 150 pounds (23 to 68 kg), are stacked by hand in a field, in a storage area such as a barn, or stacked on a vehicle for transportation, such as a flatbed trailer or semi truck for delivery to where the hay is ...