A Haines man died after jumpstarting a hay swather on the morning of July 7 in Baker Valley, according to the Baker County Sheriff’s Office. Robert Paul Marlow, 66, died at the scene ...

Pardon the pun, but the hay baler and modern swather are intertwined with the High Plains Journal. Today, hay equipment can be handled much easier because of greater mechanical and technology ...

What started as a dry summer and a borrowed baler has transformed into a growing hay business shipping across the country for ...

It took just a spark — one created when a hay swather’s metal tine struck a rock in a field — to set off a wildfire in the Emmett foothills Friday. A wildfire that threatened a half dozen ...

They combined it with parts from an old hay swather, an old round hay baler, an old ripper, several old corrugators, and an old three-point roll-over plow. Whenever they work together, Ron said ...

Manterola and his crew of 10 will cut it with a machine called a swather. It then dries for about four days and is raked before baling. Manterola said he wants the hay to contain about 15 percent ...

Alfalfa hay is a rich source of energy, protein, fiber, calcium, vitamins, and minerals. It is harvested with a swather and sun-dried in strips. The dried strips are mechanically compressed into ...