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.

DEER LODGE — The iconic beaverslide hay stacker was invented in 1908 in Montana's Big Hole Valley, not far from Missoula. Named after Beaverhead County in which the valley sits, they're so effective ...

It's summer. Fields throughout western Colorado have been cut, and the hay baled, using various forms of modern technology — small bales, large bales, round and square bales, stack wagons and people ...

ELLENSBURG – Hay farmer Eric Ollgaard gave up hiring hay buckers in the mid-1990s because they were so scarce. About two years ago, he started using a hay squeeze to stack the 2,000 tons of hay he ...

I am thankful in many ways for growing up and moving back to the farm but also appreciative of not having to stack hay bales anymore. Any hay that our small group of animals needs now is done in large ...

JACKSON, Mont. — They call the Big Hole Valley "The Land of 10,000 Haystacks." The Big Hole Historical Society wrote a book called "History of the Big Hole Valley-Montana Pioneers of the Old West-1806 ...

A deluge filled the ditch nearest the farmhouse with water and created puddles in the graveled yard. In my imagination, the puddles were the size of Lake Superior. It was an ideal environment for ...

I had a dream the other night. It was a hot summer day and I was in the hay mow stacking bales. I could feel the chaff on my sweaty skin, hear the chatter of the elevator chain bringing up the bales ...