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.

The architecture of round barns can be traced to a Shaker community in Hancock, Massachusetts, where a stone structure was erected in 1826. Circular barns built of wooden slats were popular on ...

A curiosity rises amid the wheat fields along rural Highway 33, which cuts through the town of Guthrie. It's an immense, circular building — about 15,000 square feet inside — with a domed roof topped ...

We plan to fill our hay barns with roughly 50 tons of small round bales. Nothing marks the onset of summer for me like making hay. In Kansas, we often get our cool-season meadows put up by mid-June.

Be careful how you answer that question. Cost and expense are two different things. Everyone worries about the expense of building barns for hay storage. Yes, barns are a big capital expense.

A picturesque century-old barn off State Road 57 in southwest Indiana is part of a dwindling style of architecture that's inspired books, road trips and at least one retirement project. The Thomas C.

GREENSBURG, Ind.- Historian Shirley Willard calls round barns the “cathedrals” of the countryside. They are symbols of a bygone time in Indiana agriculture when farmers combined form, function and ...