News/Features: The Long Day

Lenny Hengst takes a short break in catching and loading straw on the wagon Tuesday. The baler throws the bales onto the wagon every ten seconds, and each wagon holds approx 175 bales. Farming in 90 degree weather in Warren County, NJ. The Hengst boys, father Ray (age 80), and his sons Jr. and Lenny bale straw in one of their fields at R. Hengst Farm in Mansfield Twp. Ray has owned the 600 acre farm since 1954. Photographed for The Star-Ledger
The Long Day, Mansfield Twp., NJ

 

Lenny Hengst takes a short break in catching and loading straw on the wagon Tuesday. The baler throws the bales onto the wagon every ten seconds, and each wagon holds approx 175 bales. Farming in 90 degree weather in Warren County, NJ. The Hengst boys, father Ray (age 80), and his sons Jr. and Lenny bale straw in one of their fields at R. Hengst Farm in Mansfield Twp. Ray has owned the 600 acre farm since 1954. Photographed for The Star-Ledger