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Making better dry hay and balage ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 1541993" data-attributes="member: 968"><p><em>Quote from an article from AgWeb: <a href="https://www.agweb.com/article/the-dos-and-donts-of-baleage-naa-wyatt-bechtel/" target="_blank">https://www.agweb.com/article/the-dos-a ... t-bechtel/</a></em></p><p><em>Improve forage quality while shortening lag time </em></p><p><em>To eliminate some of the risks and improve the quality of stored forages, Dan Undersander, agronomist with University of Wisconsin, recommends putting up a wetter version of hay: baleage. </em></p><p><em>Baleage lets producers harvest with less weather effects. Dried hay has to be baled at 20% moisture or less in small square bales and even less moisture for large round bales. With baleage, moisture can range from 25% to 70%. The flexibility in moisture content allows producers to speed up the baling process and get work done before a rain that might spoil a normal hay crop.</em></p><p></p><p>Some farmers let it completely dry down and "store it" by wrapping. Expensive alternative to me, but definitely an alternative to letting it get rained on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 1541993, member: 968"] [i]Quote from an article from AgWeb: [url=https://www.agweb.com/article/the-dos-and-donts-of-baleage-naa-wyatt-bechtel/]https://www.agweb.com/article/the-dos-a ... t-bechtel/[/url] Improve forage quality while shortening lag time To eliminate some of the risks and improve the quality of stored forages, Dan Undersander, agronomist with University of Wisconsin, recommends putting up a wetter version of hay: baleage. Baleage lets producers harvest with less weather effects. Dried hay has to be baled at 20% moisture or less in small square bales and even less moisture for large round bales. With baleage, moisture can range from 25% to 70%. The flexibility in moisture content allows producers to speed up the baling process and get work done before a rain that might spoil a normal hay crop.[/i] Some farmers let it completely dry down and "store it" by wrapping. Expensive alternative to me, but definitely an alternative to letting it get rained on. [/QUOTE]
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