Farmers in Muskingum and surrounding counties are now into the haymaking season. You can see the modern equipment in the fields cutting, raking, baling and hauling the various sizes and shapes of ...

When I was a regional reporter for the Grand Forks Herald, I heard about a farm family near Cummings, N.D., who baled hay at night. I thought that would make an interesting story, so I told my editor ...

In 1872, Athens inventor Nelson Palmer filed a patent for an “Improvement in Horse Hay-Forks” that had a design for a specialized, strong brace to hold all four tines.

Early pioneers used scythes and sickles to cut the hay and then piled it up with wooden forks. In the 1940s came the twine, automatic tie baler which was pulled behind a tractor and produced a 60- to ...