What to do with grass?

[kenny thomas]

What size rolls weighing how much.

Your guess is as good as mine. Lol. They are 5x4's. The guy I do shares with says they're around 1000lbs. I tend to think they are likely around 800. But I couldn't tell you for sure.

That's a good price if they actually weigh 1000.
I weighed 3 rolls from 3 different rollers and they weighed 700-1000. They looked very much the same

 

[chaded]

What size rolls weighing how much.

Your guess is as good as mine. Lol. They are 5x4's. The guy I do shares with says they're around 1000lbs. I tend to think they are likely around 800. But I couldn't tell you for sure.

That's a good price if they actually weigh 1000.
I weighed 3 rolls from 3 different rollers and they weighed 700-1000. They looked very much the same

Where I am getting my price is I take the total fertilizer bill and divide it by the number of bales I get for my half, since I am giving the other half to the guy that bales it. If I buy it somewhere else it might be a little more (unless we have a drought) and especially if it was delivered. But, if I went that route my goal would to be to minimize the amount of hay fed as much as possible.

 

[kenny thomas]

Hay they never eat is the cheapest.
I am still out on where the perfect combination of stockpile and feeding hay actually is. I'm a lazy grass farmer so I like having lots of grass to turn into.

 

[hillbilly beef man]

What size rolls weighing how much.

Your guess is as good as mine. Lol. They are 5x4's. The guy I do shares with says they're around 1000lbs. I tend to think they are likely around 800. But I couldn't tell you for sure.

Since I have got a set of scales and started weighing bales I have found out that very few 4x5s weigh 1000 lb. I have seen them weigh as little as 550 lbs.

 

[Little Joe]

I agree with what Kenny and some others told you, keep same number of head, rotational graze, stockpile, buy hay. Even if you pay a little more for bought hay you're money ahead because your putting the nutrients from their hay on your pasture when you feed it.Id cut down the number of days you're feeding hay as much as possible.

 

[Caustic Burno]

What size rolls weighing how much.

Your guess is as good as mine. Lol. They are 5x4's. The guy I do shares with says they're around 1000lbs. I tend to think they are likely around 800. But I couldn't tell you for sure.

Since I have got a set of scales and started weighing bales I have found out that very few 4x5s weigh 1000 lb. I have seen them weigh as little as 550 lbs.

Depends on the grass here on average a 4x5 weighs 800 lbs. Paraguay Bahia makes a much heavier bale.

 

[Brute 23]

You can tell the difference when a bale is wrapped tight or not when you pick it up with the tractor. I dont have a scale but it would not surprise me to see several hundred pounds of difference as yall have said.

 

[chaded]

Well, the day i have to decide what to do has come a lot sooner then i thought it would. The guy that was doing my hay stopped by the other day and said he wasn't doing it anymore. Him and his business partner (ex father in law) had a falling out.

They only cut 1/3 of my field and their half of the bales are still sitting in the field along with their tractor and baler.…

On one hand it doesn't make financial sense for me to make my own hay but its this kind of stuff that makes you realize why people do it.