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.

“A dry year will starve you to death, and a wet year will scare you to death” is an old agricultural saying, up north, anyway. Farmers in southern Vermont certainly agree. Summer 2020 was ...

Early pioneers used scythes and sickles to cut the hay and then piled it up with wooden forks. In the 1940s came the twine, automatic tie baler which was pulled behind a tractor and produced a 60- to ...