Re: Storing round bales under a tarp

Posted by Bruce from Can. on April 29, 2020 at 08:59:07 from (70.52.186.9):

In Reply to: Storing round bales under a tarp posted by kwoods on April 28, 2020 at 19:03:08:

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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