What you need to do is take this whole scene and airlift it to Iceland to get the gorgeous sky to go with it. :-) I love haybales. I'm more used to the square kind my grandpa used to have on his farm, but these are far more photogenic. One of the things that probably hurt you on score was the fact that resizing for web does wicked things to very busy stuff like hay. I have no suggestions as to how to avoid that. I'm going to guess that at a larger size, this has a lot more impact. I do think it's a wonderful representation of what looks to be a gorgeous fall day!
I like the composition, but the sky is too hazy and has no detail. An overlay layer, that is masked so it only hits the sky, combined with a masked shadow/highlights layer would kill the haze, bring out detail, and would do wonders to the image--6