Guess I have tried it all except bale pyramid with tarp, or no tarp. If the hay is dry when baled, and I want to store it in the barn, I just go ahead and put it in, on end ,3 bales high. Never been a problem in the past 30 years. I always have some dry hay I leave outside, net wrapped hay sheds water far better than string wraps. This hay is mostly surplus to my needs, and sold to beef cow calf farmers that are mostly concerned about price over quantity. In other words, these guys won’t pay a nickel extra for hay stored inside. I have now discovered that for our farms use, the best and easiest most cost effective way to store hay is, to use a inline bale wrapper with stretch plastic. As I own the wrapper for making silage bales already, the cost of wrapping a dry bale is $2.00 for plastic, and can be done from the seat of the tractor. No screwing around tying tarps down, or folding them up to try making them last for several years. Tarps are costly to buy. And unlike a barn structure, a line of wrapped bales needs no insurance, no maintenance and isn’t subject to property tax. Bales come out just as good as they went in. And unlike other storage methods, if the hay was baled too high in moisture to keep without moulding, bales wrapped in plastic will ferment , instead of mould. These are my experiences, and opinions, not advice.
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