Bedding cows on rape and wheat straw that’s been chopped on the baler is a great way to cut down on haulage and dust, as one Somerset farmer explained to David Cousins. No-one could complain about a ...

DEMAND for straw has been high over the past few years. With depressed arable incomes, many farmers now see straw as an asset they can realise in tangible cash terms through selling it, when it may ...

The John Deere 6170 was completely destroyed in the blaze, which took hold extremely fast in the dry conditions Firefighters have tackled a blaze in field which rapidly destroyed a tractor, as well as ...

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When I sold our horses two years ago, our family took a break from baling straw. For the next few years the baler sat idle because we no longer needed it for bedding. But earlier this summer when I ...

When rampant burning of crop stubble straw has posed a serious threat to soil, human health and environment in the region, arrival of a country-made square baler and that too on a comparatively lower ...

Like Rumpelstiltskin spun straw to gold, balers turn scrap into valued commodities. Balers reduce shipping costs by densifying materials, improving the efficiency of each haul. Because of this, for ...

LIVE OAK – The hum of a tractor’s motor fills the forest as a worker heaves an armful of pine needles into a rusted red baler. He flips a metal lever over the tawny leaves and pushes down sharply, ...

Chandigarh: To promote ex-situ treatment of paddy stubble after harvesting, the Punjab govt is providing imported high-density balers to women entrepreneurs to have evinced interest in the scheme.

Firefighters have tackled a blaze in field which rapidly destroyed a tractor, as well as up to four acres (1.6 hectares) of straw. Crews from four stations were called to Tuttington, near Aylsham, ...