Haying Independence by Marti Livengood Goodwin - Color

Do you want to increase your farm’s sustainability by baling hay for your own animals? Are you tired of paying high prices for hay and disappointed by the quality of hay available on the market? Are you fed up with the contract hay baler who doesn’t think your field is a priority? Do you own a compact tractor that you love and simply want to find hay machinery that will work with it?

Then it is high time for you to bring haying independence to your small farm! 

Haying Independence: The Ultimate Guide to Small-Farm Hay Production provides a step-by-step guide to achieving just this. Learn how to successfully:

• Assess your farm’s forage needs.
• Choose, repair, and maintain hay equipment sized for your farm including mowers, rakes, tedders, and balers.
• Follow the baling process of mowing, curing, tedding, raking, and baling.
• Store, feed, and market your hay.

Author Marti Livengood Goodwin spent forty years of her life on a small farm in Indiana. During that time the farm maintained both a poultry and sheep operation and produced the grain and forage used to feed its livestock. Marti and her husband, Pat, took the knowledge they gained on the farm and became dealers of small-farm machinery in 2009. This venture quickly evolved into the creation of Tractor Tools Direct in 2013, America’s premier online source for small-farm hay equipment, where Marti serves as lead web content writer and blogger. 

So, don’t listen to your fellow farmers who laugh you out of the local coffee shop when asked if you can bale hay with a compact tractor. You CAN! Read this book to get started on the road to small-farm haying independence today! 

This full-color version is 8” x 10” in size with a durable, waterproof front and back cover. Spiral binding allows the book to lie flat when open for easier access to charts and checklists. Perfect for use out in the field or equipment shed.