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<blockquote data-quote="K-SHIRES" data-source="post: 196049" data-attributes="member: 3624"><p>Sounds like the tool to fit what you want to do is a round baler with these features: Silage special, net or twine wrap, CROP CUTTER. Both New Holland and John Deere offer this package. I mention CROP CUTTER, because your objective is to produce a highly desirable, salable product moreso than high quality feed for your own stock, yes?</p><p> The Crop Cutter option chops all material to 3 - 5 inch pieces as it bales, can be done with baleage(wet) or dry hay. This increases salability of your product: Folks can put into TMR mixer without first sending bale thru tub grinder. Also, a small stallbarn dairyman can feed those out without first grinding or slicing bale up. Also cattle can ingest more direct from bale than with traditional round bales. With this type baler, you have the option of making dry hay with net wrap, or wet hay to be wrapped, depending on quality of hay and weather factors. </p><p> Then you could rent or buy a wrapper to go along with it.</p><p>If you are going to produce high quality feed to sell, don't use a tubeline wrapper - you want to individually wrap bales so you can sell them in integer units. Once a tubeline of baleage is opened, it must be fed from every day, because oxygen is spoiling it rapidly.</p><p> Thoughts on silage production - Silage is a very hard product to sell off the place. Hard to truck - too loose and fluffy after you scoop it to load it. Vulnerable to excessive spoilage -In handling it you expose it to oxygen, snow, etc. And too hard to measure weights , too complex of pricing. Baleage better product for selling and trucking. More consistent, less spoilage. NetWrap is the way of the future. Gendronf offers solid testimonial to that.. Best of luck with your venture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="K-SHIRES, post: 196049, member: 3624"] Sounds like the tool to fit what you want to do is a round baler with these features: Silage special, net or twine wrap, CROP CUTTER. Both New Holland and John Deere offer this package. I mention CROP CUTTER, because your objective is to produce a highly desirable, salable product moreso than high quality feed for your own stock, yes? The Crop Cutter option chops all material to 3 - 5 inch pieces as it bales, can be done with baleage(wet) or dry hay. This increases salability of your product: Folks can put into TMR mixer without first sending bale thru tub grinder. Also, a small stallbarn dairyman can feed those out without first grinding or slicing bale up. Also cattle can ingest more direct from bale than with traditional round bales. With this type baler, you have the option of making dry hay with net wrap, or wet hay to be wrapped, depending on quality of hay and weather factors. Then you could rent or buy a wrapper to go along with it. If you are going to produce high quality feed to sell, don't use a tubeline wrapper - you want to individually wrap bales so you can sell them in integer units. Once a tubeline of baleage is opened, it must be fed from every day, because oxygen is spoiling it rapidly. Thoughts on silage production - Silage is a very hard product to sell off the place. Hard to truck - too loose and fluffy after you scoop it to load it. Vulnerable to excessive spoilage -In handling it you expose it to oxygen, snow, etc. And too hard to measure weights , too complex of pricing. Baleage better product for selling and trucking. More consistent, less spoilage. NetWrap is the way of the future. Gendronf offers solid testimonial to that.. Best of luck with your venture. [/QUOTE]
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