Blackfoot Valley Dispatch - The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980

Work and pray, live on hay,

You'll get a pie in the sky when you die.

- Joe Hill (Joseph Hillstrom)

The Preacher and the Slave

I've written a number of times about the changes in ranching that I've seen. The most dramatic is the sophistication of the mechanics involved in putting up the hay. The introduction of the round and big square balers, plus the swathers changed the summer ritual of hay...