Harvesting hay has gone from a labor-intensive practice of using sickles and wooden forks to balers that compress hay into round and square bales.

Make hay when the sun shines. That’s a saying that means exactly what is says. “When it’s go time, it’s all hands on deck,” ...

More mature hay is ideal for horses that are easy keepers or are only lightly used,” she says. One way to assess the maturity of alfalfa hay is the snap test.

Your horse is in good body condition; she is doing well on the grass/alfalfa-mix hay you are currently feeding. She is getting no grain, and she has never developed laminitis, inflammation of the soft ...

Hay is high in fiber and bulk, which supports the horse’s digestive tract. Nutrition content can be similar to the current ...

When our warm season pastures, such as bermudagrass and bahiagrass, begin declining in both production and quality, horse owners should be stocking up on hay to feed through the fall and winter ...