School kids are talking to their neighbors and friends, asking them to drop off discarded hay wrap at participating schools for the Hay Wrap Take Back competition among 10 schools in Cherokee County.

A group of farmers is wrapping up hay bales with an old-fashioned twine to test it as an alternative to plastic string and plastic netting. The twine, made from the sisal plant, was commonly used by ...

Most everyone in the livestock business agrees that using plastic for baled forage is a great tool that benefits both the farmer and livestock. However, proper disposal of the plastic after it has ...

Net wrapping bales may be more cost- and time-efficient than wrapping with twine. Although net wrapping isn't cheap — equipment costs $3,000 to $4,000 and plastic net 75 cents to $1 more per bale than ...