Large round bales should be baled at less than 18% moisture. Baling at a higher moisture content can lead to excessive heating, which reduces hay quality and is a potential fire hazard.

As Mark Mauldin’s article, Minimize Hay Losses to Save Money pointed out, large round bales stored outside on the ground can lose up 25% of their dry matter content in a year. At the most ...

1. Look at hay quality, or value. There’s a big dollar difference in a 25% loss on $120/ton of hay vs. $40/ton of hay. The better the quality, the more you’ll save putting it under storage.

WENTZVILLE, MO (KTVI) – Both lanes of eastbound Interstate 70 in Wentzville were closed for about an hour Friday morning while road crews removed several large round hay bales from the road The ...

Feeding sugar beets to livestock, reproductive performance monitoring and the effects of storing large round hay bales outside were among the beef cattle topics North Dakota State University ...

The project is led by the town's Neighborhood Leaders program, which delivered 29 large, round hay bales to participating neighborhoods and businesses during the last two weeks of October.

Responding deputies found that a Brainerd resident in a minivan had struck a large, round hay bale that broke loose from a trailer. At least three other hay bales were in the road nearby.

FULTON COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) – A Cumberland County child was killed after a large round hay bale fell on him earlier this month. According to Pennsylvania State Police, on July 1 Troopers from M… ...

Posted: Feb 28, 2021 / 04:50 PM CST Updated: Feb 28, 2021 / 09:28 PM CST LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) A fire that damaged 200 round hay bales in Lafayette Parish, has been ruled arson.

A 75-year-old Brainerd man was injured after the minivan he was driving Sunday night struck a large round hay bale in the lane of traffic on Crow Wing County Highway 3, northeast of Brainerd.