11/17/08, 10:51 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Carthage, Texas
Posts: 12,261
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Originally Posted by Minelson
Really good ideas here...thanks to all of you! I have never seen hay stacked on edge before...I'm also going to make sure that it is actual mold I'm seeing and not just extra dust. Next major purchase will be stacked differently...  |
Most places bale hay with plastic now... alfalfa has always (least alfalfa I've seen) had wire. Plastic is a new thing... growing up, all we ever had available was the natural fiber string... which would last for years, if it stayed dry. If it got wet and stayed moist, it'd rot away... thus, hay was always stored cut edge down. Reckon wire would rust too, so I'd imagine alfalfa folks would store their bottom bales on edge.
Bad bales... put em in the garden. Currently looking for several hundred bad bales, or a dozen or so rotten round bales. My soil needs a massive amount of organic matter, and nothing beats rotten hay. [when life gives you lemons, make lemonade]
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