LIVE OAK – The hum of a tractor’s motor fills the forest as a worker heaves an armful of pine needles into a rusted red baler. He flips a metal lever over the tawny leaves and pushes down sharply, ...

As North Florida’s timber industry faces new challenges, some landowners turn to pine straw. Are the human and environmental costs worth it? In part two, 'Baling pine straw for pennies,' crews ...

STEELE, N.D. — Barley harvest was going well for Michael Binder on Tuesday, Aug. 11, just south of Interstate 94 on the east side of Steele. His crew had two combines going on a calm, sunny day. But ...

As the rice harvest season comes to an end, farmers in Ninh Binh are no longer burning their leftover straw. Instead, they are using baling machines to collect and sell the once-discarded byproduct, ...