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You might look into a variable frequency drive (VFD). It allows you to set the desired water pressure you want, and the system will maintain that pressure by speeding up or slowing down the pump. If you shut everything off the system goes to sleep. They are expensive but your power company may...

I am pushing 850,000 of the 3 twine square bales.

We are in a different world here in northeastern California. We put up the small bales, (3 tie). Mostly pure orchard grass, some alfalfa/orchard mix for the SoCal horse market. A 100 pound bale is selling for $15. By the time the trucker, the broker, and the feed store puts their markup on, it...

simple, you need to put in a larger pipe.

If you are cutting grain hay after grain devolopes all you have is straw. The sugars iun the stem are pulled unto the head. Trust me you will have better hay if you cut it in full bloom.

The dry chemicals that I have been around allow you to bale hay with a higher moisture content without your bales heating or molding. But, you are only looking at a 5% to 6% increase in hay moisture. Any more moisture and it will still cause you problems. I don't think it is worth the money.

Here in Northeastern California, 3 tie orchard grass bales (105 to 110 lbs/bale) is going for $150 per ton plus trucking.

The twine knotters on all New Holland balers do that. The only time you will have problems, is if your knotter fan fails to blow the twine ends and chaff away

The hay brokers that I have talked to are thinking hay is going up another 15% to 20% this year. That is for west coast feed store hay.

Out here in the west, Hay is baled in big square (mostly dairy quality alfalfa and stock cow hay) and 3 string small square bales (horse and feed store hay). There is very little round bales. Because we sell to a horse market, we bale everything in the small square bales. Using a hay squeeze...

Horse quality orchard grass here in northern California is going for $150 per ton. The people I am selling to are trucking the hay to feed stores in southern California. With the freight bill and feed store markup, the hay is going for close to $300 per ton. Someone loves there horses a hell of...

I raise orchard grass for a horse market. I put up about 2500 tons per year. I bale my orchard grass in the heat of the day. I start as soon as the dew burns off. I want the grass to dry to 10 to 12% moisture max, usually lower. Any more moisture and you will get brown and moldy flakes. I rake...

The truckers here in California are charging $3.85 to $4.00 per loaded mile. But that is with $3.25 fuel.