I wrap all my round bales in plastic (both balage and dry hay). I used the plastic twine for the first time this year and it made things much easier for me. When the sisal is wrapped it is preserved like the hay for the most part, but tends to break down a bit so it's really hard to pull strings without breaking them.
The only thing I really hate about the plastic twine is that it's really hard to get the bales home from the field without twines coming off. Last fall if you would have asked me if I liked plastic twine I would have told you to avoid it like the plague, but now I'm not sure. I might try the bio-degradable stuff this summer. Not sure if that will stay on the bales during transport any better or not.
But yeah, without wrapping bales, I would definitely use sisal if storing outside. Been through the horrors of netwrap with ice on some hay I bought last winter. I'm still finding pieces of that stuff around the farm.
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