hay moisture

Grab a handfull bout half way down. Put hands together (index fingers and thumbs touching) around wad of grass. Twist like you would do if turning a hand drill (brace). If it pops on the 3rd or less turn, go for it.

Mark

That answer is why I don't ask my father anything because he'd give me an answer like that and be right, then tell me to take my 300.00 moister checker back for a refund. :)

Also we don't sell by the ton; by the bale. Maybe we are lazy or cheap, but that's how it's done and we bale a lotta hay and feed a lotta live stock. I know there is a ton of variables but the biggest is moisture and that can throw you for a loop.

So to do it the other way you gotta get an accurate moisture gauge that has been and has been kept in calibration. Have to determine what time if day it is as the moisture will change drastically from noon to 5pm. Have to truck the hay to the scales and back, interrupting your hayin operation....and on and on.

Then the hay you put in the barn at 18% or whatever moisture and 65#'s has sat there for 6 months and now you have a customer that wants to buy it but it now has 10% moisture and the weight is down to 45#..... .grrrrr rrrrr . Like my (our) way better.

Not knocking the way some of you guys do it.....just telling it like it is around here.

Go for it.

Mark