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Showing posts with label Hay Caps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hay Caps. Show all posts
Tuesday
Thursday
Friday
Thursday
July 23, 2020
This week is National Farm Safety Week in Australia.
So proud
that 13 years ago we invented Hay Caps, a reusable solution for covering hay
that’s applied at ground level.
Hay Caps, protecting farmers and their hay all
over Australia... and throughout the world.
Photo: Farm-ily April 5, 2016
Tuesday
Saturday
Tuesday
Thursday
March 8, 2018
Trucking out 2016 season
lower grade oaten hay.
Baled December 2016, stacked using Hay Caps on top & ground sheet on bottom the day it was baled. 730mm rain over
16 months since.
Coming out beautiful!
Friday
Tuesday
September 19, 2017
Today is a special day.
10 years ago today we entered a Hay Cap into the
Henty Machinery Field Days Farm Inventor of the Year competition. Being hay
farmers we saw a need for a safer and more durable system for covering hay. We
were overwhelmed by the response.
10 years on we have Hay Caps throughout Australia, NZ, US, Canada, UK & Europe. We are proud of the difference our product has made to the hay industry
& the safety of farmers. And we are very grateful to our customers, those that have encouraged us along the way and of course our team. We are a family
business, manufacturing an Aussie invention, employing local people and
distributing our Hay Caps to so many farmers around the world.
And that's kinda
cool I think.
Monday
Thursday
Tuesday
August 9, 2016
Ferrying out the last of last season’s oaten hay via
trailers as site too wet for trucks.
This hay was stacked under
our Hay Caps the day it was baled - 28th October 2015. 474mm rain on
stack since then with one of the wettest winter’s we have had in a long time.
It is now on its way to a local dairy farm.
It is now on its way to a local dairy farm.
Wednesday
February 17, 2016
Hay Making with Hay Caps.
Today I thought I would share something a little
different with you…. something that might give you a bit more of an insight
into us as farmers.
Eight years ago we invented the Hay Caps, a
covering system for large square bales of hay.
At the time we were looking for a better way to cover our stacks of hay.
We couldn’t find it, so invented it ourselves, and thought that if we needed it
then maybe other farmers would need it too.
We had a promo video made of our Hay Caps 18 months
ago which I shared here. This is what I wrote on that blog post:
A few weeks ago we
had Vince Bucello from Midstate Video Productions
here filming for a documentary on Australian agriculture. He spent a day with
us filming the making of oaten hay. Whilst Vince was here we got him to make us
a Hay Cap promo incorporating some of his amazing drone and GoPro images.
Hay Caps are a big
part of our operation now - their usage is an integral part of our hay
production and storage; and the manufacturing, marketing, sales and dispatch of
Hay Caps take up a lot of our time. The whole process from
inventing a new concept to the actual manufacture and distribution of that
product has been an amazing experience. And to see it flourish, employing local
people, as well as changing the way that hay is covered around the world is
humbling.
Over the course of
nearly 2 years of my daily photographing our farm and sharing on this blog I
have been very careful not to make it about Hay Caps. We are farmers. We are
passionate about making top quality fodder. That’s who we are. That’s what we
do. Hay Caps came about because we are farmers, who needed a better way, a
safer way, a more durable way to cover hay. This blog is about us as
farmers. But occasionally something comes along that I just can’t not share,
something I hope will give you an insight in to us as farmers.
Monday
November 30, 2015
Yesterday’s delivery run a contrast to one earlier
this year through the
mountains. January 12, 2015
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