Hay run bringing bales — but also smiles — to drought-stricken SA farms

At Elbow Hill, near the Lincoln and Birdseye Highways, the delivery of donated hay bales is a life-and-death matter for the sheep of Antonia Haselton and Michael Shakes.

Their property outside Cowell on South Australia’s eastern Eyre Peninsula has, like countless farms across the state, been in…