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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Farmers are apparently moving towards eco-friendly practices by switching over to straw balers. The farmers usually burn the paddy straw after ‘combine-harvesting’ (using harvesters) as they have to ...

A 38-year-old Gozitan man died yesterday when he climbed underneath a faulty mechanical straw baler to see why it had stopped working and was sucked into the machine when it suddenly turned back on.

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.