Posted by Ken Macfarlane on July 26, 2016 at 15:16:18 from (142.166.168.2):
In Reply to: Re: OT - Salting Hay posted by Traditional Farmer on July 26, 2016 at 05:02:19:
Yes we used to do it because the old fellow I worked for did it. Then I tried leaving some hay unsalted and low and behold it turns out exactly the same.
Think of it like this, if I wanted to fertilize my field, would I drive haphazardly around and toss 50 lbs onto 50 acres in a few spots and claim to have fertilized the field?
If I want to treat the hay with an actual preservative such as proprionic acid, it needs to be sprayed evenly on the loose hay going into the baled uncompressed so it can get to all the surfaces. Thats a liquid that is far more mobile than a solid, it can actually vaporize and move around.
Salt just stays as salt. I can leave a bucket of rock salt in the corner for 50 years and it will still be there, just stuck together as a big lump. It won't have magically migrated to the surfaces around it.
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