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T’is the holiday season, and everyone loves the surprise of holiday packages delivered to their doors. However, at Tractor Tools Direct, we work to take the surprise out of the packages we deliver to you during any season. We know you are busy running your small farm and have no time for surprises. So we make every effort to ensure that when you make a purchase from us, you know exactly what you’re getting, when you’ll get it, and how it will arrive. Our exceptional service begins with your fi …

Some of our products, like our Ibex TX31 Mini Round Balers and other hay implements, are so popular that they are often sold before they hit our warehouse! For this reason, we allow pre-orders on certain purchases to ensure that the item you need is sent to you as soon as it arrives from our manufacturer. Waiting for the item to actually arrive before ordering risks the item being sold-out before you have a chance to make the purchase. You don’t want that! A quick way to tell if we at TTD a …

The following is a blog we posted to our website and social media account in October of 2018. It is our most shared blog post ever. When we updated our company website, it was removed due to its incompatibility with the new platform. However, enough people contacted us asking for it to be replaced that we took the time to redesign and update the calculator to make it even better. Here it is!Livestock Winter Hay Needs With winter coming on, it is time to make sure that you have enough hay in th …

Few things are as upsetting in the world of hay production as a surprise rain shower or pop-up thunderstorm once your hay has been cut. While a brief sprinkling rain soon after the hay has been cut may not be cause for concern, downpours once the hay has partially or completely dried can be devastating if you’re not prepared. First, let’s discuss the problems created by rainfall on cut hay. Quality loss is the most concerning issue surrounding rained-on hay. Rainfall leaches sugars out of plan …

When baling hay, one of the decisions a producer must make is what type of bale binding to use. Hay binding materials include sisal twine, polypropylene twine, hemp twine, net wrap and others. This blog will discuss sisal twine.  What is sisal? Sisal is a fiber found naturally in plants of the agave family. These plants grow in the arid regions of Central America, Mexico and the American Southwest. Native to South America, the fiber has been used since pre-Columbian times but became …