Forage equipment is traditionally used to harvest and package crops such as grass, alfalfa, triticale, wheat, barley, oats, corn and sorghum. When harvesting grass, alfalfa or triticale, the product is most often cut with a swather or mower.

It’s commonly assumed by farmers and ag professionals who look up fuel use data for field operations that fuel use improves over time as newer equipment is used.

As they say, necessity is the mother of invention. After years of struggling with costly and time-consuming loading and unloading methods for hay and straw, Jason Grady decided to do something different.