Harvesting hay has gone from a labor-intensive practice of using sickles and wooden forks to balers that compress hay into ...

The bales are an eighth of the hay Lawrence needs to feed his 100 cows through the winter. He and his wife Alexis worked all summer to grow it and stayed up late harvesting it -- just the two of them.

The bales are an eighth of the hay Lawrence needs to feed his 100 cows through the winter. He and his wife Alexis worked all summer to grow it and stayed up late harvesting it -- just the two of them.

As for conditions within a bale of hay, Darby said that white plastic wrap is meant to preserve quality and allow hay to ferment, something that exposure to oxygen ruins. “Once you open that bale up, ...

The bales are an eighth of the hay Lawrence needs to feed his 100 cows through the winter. He and his wife Alexis worked all summer to grow it and stayed up late harvesting it -- just the two of them.

The bales are an eighth of the hay Lawrence needs to feed his 100 cows through the winter. He and his wife Alexis worked all summer to grow it and stayed up late harvesting it -- just the two of them.

The bales are an eighth of the hay Lawrence needs to feed his 100 cows through the winter. He and his wife Alexis worked all summer to grow it and stayed up late harvesting it -- just the two of them.

The bales are an eighth of the hay Lawrence needs to feed his 100 cows through the winter. He and his wife Alexis worked all summer to grow it and stayed up late harvesting it -- just the two of them.

The bales are an eighth of the hay Lawrence needs to feed his 100 cows through the winter. He and his wife Alexis worked all summer to grow it and stayed up late harvesting it -- just the two of them.