Yeah, and after one season of round bales you'll be back to using your small square baler making "idiot cubes."
Why? Because with small squares you make one pass across the field and it is EMPTY. The bales are all nicely stacked on a trailer or wagon where you can move them from place to place just by hitching on. They get handled once or twice more as they're unloaded onto an elevator and stacked in a loft. Inside. Dry. Ready to use. No waste.
To feed, you toss a few down and open them in a nice dry manger.
With big rounds, you have to chase all over the field, back and forth, scooping up bales one at a time, and make dozens of trips. Tearing up the equipment and the field. Burning fuel.
That just gets the bales to the edge of the field. Then you have to pick them up, again with a machine, one by one, and load them on to a trailer. Then you either need to drive the loader tractor all the way home to unload them, or have two loader tractors.
Now you get to pick them all up again and stack them somewhere else. You can't get big rounds up in the hay loft, the floor will collapse under the tractor. So you stack them outside where they get rained on for months and months. By the time you use them the hay is half gone and the rest is poor quality.
Then you have to handle them AGAIN, with a tractor and a loader. Slogging through mud in all sorts of weather to get to them, slogging through more mud to get to the feeder. Want to feed them inside? Oops, the animals are in a traditional old milking barn, back-to-back, with narrow mangers up front. No way a bale is going in there, so now you have to figure out how to slice the bales up and get them into the barn to feed...
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