Our journey to a "hay day"
It all started as a little 13 acre patch of canary grass in the middle of one of our corn fields.
A small International baler and a cab-less 560 International tractor churning out just over one thousand small square bales twice every summer. Out would come the flat bed wagons and Dad and Grandpa followed by a string of young farm kids who were barely bigger than the bales themselves. With leather gloves, sweat, and the pride and stubbornness born deep into Medunas, this little crew would pick up and put the bales away in storage. Some of the best times were born in the hot sun of that hay field.
As the young farm kids got older, they sought out any unused hay acres they could find in the area, mostly pastures or backyards of acreage neighbors, and would ask to harvest their grass. This led to new equipment, which in turn led to more acres. Bigger tracts of grass replaced the backyards and a Bale Barron and a Telehandler relieved the hand labor. The passion and family effort remains though and Meduna Family Farms currently harvests over 2000 acres of grass hay and alfalfa.
A small International baler and a cab-less 560 International tractor churning out just over one thousand small square bales twice every summer. Out would come the flat bed wagons and Dad and Grandpa followed by a string of young farm kids who were barely bigger than the bales themselves. With leather gloves, sweat, and the pride and stubbornness born deep into Medunas, this little crew would pick up and put the bales away in storage. Some of the best times were born in the hot sun of that hay field.
As the young farm kids got older, they sought out any unused hay acres they could find in the area, mostly pastures or backyards of acreage neighbors, and would ask to harvest their grass. This led to new equipment, which in turn led to more acres. Bigger tracts of grass replaced the backyards and a Bale Barron and a Telehandler relieved the hand labor. The passion and family effort remains though and Meduna Family Farms currently harvests over 2000 acres of grass hay and alfalfa.
