When large round hay bales came along, those of us who had cut our agricultural teeth on stacking small square bales thought we’d never need to put hay bales in a stifling hot barn again.

Nowadays a lot of farmers use round bales of hay. They’re huge. Some of them can weigh over a thousand pounds. One of the perks is they take less time to dry between cutting the hay and baling it.

When my husband and I started buying our ranch on Withington Creek in 1967, we soon had 180 cows and put up a lot of hay for ...

As snow falls and winter descends, a lot of agricultural work is slowing down. But for farmers with livestock, they’ve got to make sure their animals have enough to eat through the long cold months.