OSU Extension: The Way You Stack Round Bales Matters!

[@cowboyyoga]

Thank you! What a helpful video!

[@jti2007]

If hay is worth baling, it's worth putting under a roof for storage.

[@janeenhorne4392]

We sell round bales, and our customers say net wrap can camouflage a bad bale. We use plastic twine, with a double feed system that takes less time and rotation to secure the bale. We store as recommended, in rows, north/south oriented. We haven't been able to convince our customers to follow our plan, and they lose a lot of hay to moisture.

[@parchechuletaovero9507]

Great job.cheers from Argentina

[@_P0tat07_]

Farmers in my area must like to bake hay just to let them rot. Many bales sit for years and years, decades even, until they start to flatten out.

[@markharalson1290]

This was very informative!

[@nalley6815]

$120 jeez. I’m lucky to get 45 where I am. For 5x5’s

[@johntyrone307]

Excellent video. However, I've never understood why damp, wrapped silage makes good feed, and damp hay doesn't.

[@okstate_ag]

Wrapping the silage reduces the oxygen, increases the acid, and promotes fermentation. Damp hay can mold, as well as being a fire risk.

[@drdwgmd14]

@@okstate_ag still doesnt make sense to me, won't mold me in the fermented stuff?

[@mrbrown3462]

Never been a round bale farmer always used squares. We have many farms and horse centers around us that use round bales and the waste is absurd. I watched a horse center near us stack 700 round bales down the center of a field and cover them with tarps and they might have fead 100 of those round bales if they were lucky and had one heck of a mess in spring to clean up. It was all rotted and falling apart and they were buying hay before end of winter. I see round bale feeders all over with piles of rotted hay around them just always seems to be alot of waste with round bales. I haven't heard many great things about wrapping round bales either.

[@okstate_ag]

There are some more efficient round bale feeders that we encourage producers to consider. Our ag television show SUNUP has done a number of segments on these. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmHViI2alKmYgrM

[@pwrmx24]

How about using tin panels as a roof over the hay. Held down by tires....