Sep 18, 2026 · 2 min · 3 segments
The Meyer Family Farm grows a lot of hay up on the Rotherham prairie. Kyle Meyer talks about some of the specifics of his operation.
When we first moved back, we weren't really sure which way we were going to go, more towards the domestic side or try to hit the export market, because we're kind of close enough you can kind of hit that.
We kind of geared our source more towards the domestic side, started selling regular, just traditional two-tie bales.
and we'd go around delivering to people's places well we found the truck squeeze like that is large takes up a lot of room so when we kind of thought we might wind up buying more hay and trying to sell it you know if we run out of farm ground small bale market is a shrinking market so it's getting kind of tough to find quality small bales so that was kind of the driver for the The hay press was the ability to convert a large bale into small bales.
The other nice part about these smaller bales is they come off wrapped in pallet-sized bundles.
When we first moved back, we weren't really sure which way we were going to go, more towards the domestic side or try to hit the export market, because we're kind of close enough you can kind of hit that.
We kind of geared our source more towards the domestic side, started selling regular, just traditional two-tie bales.
and we'd go around delivering to people's places well we found the truck squeeze like that is large takes up a lot of room so when we kind of thought we might wind up buying more hay and trying to sell it you know if we run out of farm ground small bale market is a shrinking market so it's getting kind of tough to find quality small bales so that was kind of the driver for the The hay press was the ability to convert a large bale into small bales.
The other nice part about these smaller bales is they come off wrapped in pallet-sized bundles.
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