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Calibrated/corrected moisture, I go 18% on barn stored round bales and 20% on small squares. I'll go to 23% intermitent for outside round bales, knowing there will be some mold and leave that for my cows. Any more than that and I try to roll and wrap. As to salt... there are people on here who swear by it, and far be it for me to challenge their wisdom. As to my opinion, if I have time to salt bales with enough salt to possibly have any effect, I need more to do and would have more money than I need. Science-wise, I cant see how salting will make any difference. If the salt was pulling water, it would make a nasty wet mess between the bales. There is no magic to salt, the theory is reverse osmotic flow and surface area. But the fact remains, the water has to go somewhere. The last thing I want to do is hold water in side my stacks of hay, in wet spots. If anything, it would decrease the gravitational flow of water in the stack. Most of the effect is in opening up the block of hay to increase airflow on hay that would probably keep anyway. A better investment is in a fan, a real one (I use 4 foot). I've dried out a couple of hundred small squares that went in in the low 20's in 36 hrs.
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