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  1. Repacked the fertilizer and stuck the old labels on as far as there were any. Most are general NPK ones which we can just use up in the garden.

    Also a pot of salt for some reason. And some leftover herbicide which I've got no use for. Oh, and a jar full of rendered lard that has gone rancid years ago. Not sure what to do with those.

    Then there were two open sacks of white powder with no label. Extremely light and fluffy. Since the mice gnawed plenty of holes into the sacks, the yard now looks like Elon's couch table. I guess it's fertilizer so maybe the grass will grow extra fast (it does anyways).

    That's this section cleared out, except what do I do with all this ancient hay? Don't need that much mulching right now.

    #Homestead #Barn #Cleanup #Fertilizer #Hay

  2. Random observation of our blobular house rabbit, George...

    George has never been a huge fan of hay. You're supposed to make sure that hay/grass form a large part of a rabbit's diet - a majority of it, in fact - but that seems a bit too rustic for some bunnies. George is one of them.

    He always has access to hay, of course - even if his food bowl is empty, there's always hay. And you'll see him pick at it sometimes.

    But in the last few days I discovered that George is perfectly happy to eat hay for an indeterminate period - provided I sit on the floor and hand-feed it to him, one blade at a time. 🤦‍♂️

    I've been a rabbit ~~owner~~ servant for 25 years, but I think this level of service is beyond me.

    Sheesh.

    #sheesh #HouseRabbit #rabbit #bunny #blobular #hay #grass #servant

  3. Greetings to you and yours. Here’s a brand new song I made called Afraid Of Hay.
    It’s maybe about rejecting your literal surroundings or maybe it’s a metaphor, I dunno I just write ‘em. George, my youngest, provided a tasty dusting of vibes from their pedal steel guitar. I hope you like it.
    #bgm #music #NewMusic #IndiePop #country #guitars #harmonies #hay
    bgmmusic.bandcamp.com/track/af

    bandwagon.fm/69c5c71032fa95c24

  4. Precision in the Paddock: A massive wall of golden hay bales stands tall under the South Australian sun.

    Craigmore, South Australia.

    © All Rights Reserved by Kev Peirce.

    #Photo #Photography #Australia #SouthAustralia #Hay #Agriculture #RuralLife #LandscapePhotography #Farming #HarvestTime

  5. When I look at this image, I go to a dream-space of what I love.

    The Valentine’s Weekend Sale is here 💕 Use LUVIT26 for 20% off all artwork through Sunday.

    Because falling for your space is a form of self-love.

    chrisboese.photo/warehouse-ope

    #pastoral #meadow #art #grass #hay #photography #woods #rural #peaceful #countryside #pasture #mastodonart #mastoart #chrisboese #boesegalleries

  6. The hay bale snowman is giving Mother Nature some side eye... wondering where all of our winter snow is. My tie unintentionally matched the snowman's scarf, and I'll try to bring some winter weather back to us!

    #Montana #snowman #hay #snow #Thursday #February #winter #weather

  7. europesays.com/es/368772/ Vanesa Romero explicó en ‘La Revuelta’ lo que hizo con el «dineral» que ganó en ‘La que se avecina’ y ‘Aquí no hay quien viva’ #avecina #dineral #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #España #explico #gano #hay #hizo #no #revuelta #romero #Spain #TV #vanesa #viva

  8. oh lordy it's happening again :blobbigheart:

    "Over the weekend #WA's agricultural community stacked seven road trains high with emergency feed #hay arriving in Gascoyne Junction 945 kilometres north of Perth"

    abc.net.au/news/2026-01-27/fee

    #farmers #pastoralists #emergencyfeed

  9. PA Farm Show 2026

    Lots of Apples, Potatoes, Cattle, Hay, Butter, People, Food, Farm Equipment—and Flags!

    #pafarmshow #harrisburgpa #apples #potatoes #hay #photography

  10. hay young country mouse
    just the thing for your new home
    don’t pass up this bail

    #DailyHaikuPrompt - 12/24/25 - #hay

  11. Hay resting in dusk,
    earth’s deep fragrance in the barn
    soothes the winter herd

    #dailyhaikuprompt #hay #haiku #writing

  12. “Make hay while the sun shines”*…

    Hay, the foundation of the diet of grazing animals, is central to American agriculture. The USDA forecasts 2025 hay production at 123.5 million tons (grown on about 50 million acres countrywide), of which, about 3.24 tons are exported (generating over $1 Billion in revenue); the balance is consumed domestically.

    Most of that hay is baled for storage and transport (in rectangular or round bales) using special (and increasingly expensive) equipment. But as Katie Hill reports, 115 years ago, before the advent of those motorized balers, a homegrown invention redefined stacking hay in the West. Some ranchers still see no reason to upgrade…

    A scan of the horizon in Montana’s Big Hole Valley reveals plenty of examples of the land reclaiming what once belonged to it. Derelict jackleg fence. Log calving sheds with caving roofs. Rusting Chevrolets and spools of barbed wire. A giant compost pile of livestock carcasses, bones protruding from the mulch like seashells at low tide.

    Then, every five miles or so, an old, spindly implement punctuates the scenery. It’s tall, maybe 30 feet, resembling a giant see-saw permanently out of balance. It’s not so much a stairway to heaven as it is a halted conveyor belt to nowhere; there’s no grain silo or corn crib nearby for a machine like this to fill up from above. Regardless, its efficacy in stacking giant piles of hay is clear from its construction. Grass grows tall around its base of rough-hewn lodgepoles, as if the earth might swallow it whole if it stayed put for another century.

    This contraption [pictured at the top] is known as the beaverslide, patented in 1910 by Big Hole ranchers Herb Armitage and D.J. Stephens. The haystacking device consists of a wide, sliding fork at the base of a ramp and a cable pulley system rigged to the ramp’s underside. In practice, ranchers use a team of horses or a motorized vehicle with a winch to pull one of the cables perpendicular to the beaverslide, which in turn hoists the fork up the ramp, bringing a giant pile of hay up with it. (Ranchers rake cut hay onto the beaverslides with old buck rakes.) At the top of the ramp, the hay falls to the other side, forming three-story piles that can reach 25 tons in weight, depending on who you ask.

    Details on the manufacturing and distribution of the beaverslide — named for its origins in Beaverhead County — are slim. The prevailing story is that ranchers often made their own, then made duplicates for neighboring ranches upon request, according to Big Hole rancher lore. Over the last few decades, the contraption has largely become a relic of a bygone era. But it’s not entirely obsolete, as some ranchers still use their old beaverslides today. With modern challenges like ballooning upgrade costs and the ever-present battle over a rancher’s right to repair their own equipment, the analog beaverslide makes more and more sense for those still using one with every passing hay season…

    … he Kirkpatricks recall memories of neighbors being stuck in the middle of winter with broken-down bale processors and hungry cows. The closest repair shop in Jackson, an unincorporated community of roughly 20 people, is 42 miles south. The next closest shops or available technicians might be 53 miles away in Butte or 73 miles away in Dillon.

    Many big-name mechanized implements run on trademarked chip technology that requires a trip to an authorized dealership for servicing. Even ranchers like Humbert who otherwise possess ample repair knowledge don’t have access to the diagnostic equipment necessary to solve problems on the fly. This might sound like sacrilege for an industry that lives and dies with rural, self-sufficient communities, but a bill calling for a rancher’s right to repair their own equipment died in the 2025 Montana legislature.

    Score another point for the beaverslide…

    Read on for more fascinating background: “Why Don’t You Beaverslide?” from @katiehillwriter.bsky.social

    Watch the “technology” do it’s work here:

    https://youtu.be/1t89BQsw4x8?si=soEy07Ok3ARAgKSH

    * A Tudor expression dating back to the mid-16th century, and used figuratively since 1673

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    As we honor old ways, we might recall that it was on this date in 1974 that Island Records released Country Life, the fourth studio album by Roxy Music.

    source

    #agribusiness #agriculture #beaverslide #countryLife #culture #farmRanch #farming #hay #hayStack #hayStacking #history #ranching #rightToRepair #roxieMusic #technology

  13. Day 3! Hay Bale from Pookarah on Twitch! Went for some October vibes with some lil pumpkins.

    streamink.bsky.social
    twitch.tv/pookarah

    #streamink #streamink2025 #watercolour #gouache #hay #pumpkin

  14. There is an organised opposition to #RenewableTechnology being coordinated by extreme conservative think tanks. A good example follows:
    "But the details of the submissions reveal that there were no objections from anyone living within 20 kilometres of the project, located south of #Hay in the south west of the state. There were seven submissions from locals, and all of those were in support of the #Pottinger wind and battery project.
    There were 12 objections from people within 100km of the project and 15 in support, and the remaining 126 submissions came from “the rest of Australia”, according to the submissions response lodged by developers #SomevaRenewables and its development partner #AGL Energy." #AGL_ax

    reneweconomy.com.au/massive-re