Here one needs to bale round bales drier than small squares for them to keep well.
Here it has been so wet for so long, years now, it is difficult to make a good quality round bale.
The small squares stand a chance, if you leave them tossed or dropped in a rack for a week before you stack them, so they can sweat out a little.
Last year I small squared some hay in August, it was ‘first cutting’ the field never dried out until then, so it was old hay with new hay growing in it.
I got $4.50 a bale for that stuff at a hay auction last winter, just because it was put up dry. It was not wonderful quality, but it was dry hay.
For reference, around here hay is a waste product made from wetlands and road ditches, and you get excited to get over $2 a bale at a hay auction.
So it was crazy to be getting over 4 bucks for the goofy old hay mix......
With the wet weather for 4 years now, the hay market is very unpredictable. Dry stuff is valuable, cattle hay is plentiful.
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