Haying season... hopefully and the frustrations with being able to bale

[farmboy1]

I run a Harvest Tech (http://harvesttec.com/ ) system and use buffered proprionic acid. Automatic pumps, on board moisture sensors, and end of row auto shut off. Had it for about 10 years now and it paid for itself in one year. I would not like to bale hay without it. The pumps start kicking in at 16% moisture.

[tweaker101]

Lots of wrapping going on around here ,but takes a bit of a crew and equiptment but seems like a good way to go,looked at perseratives yrs ago but was to cost prohibitave then, dont know now.
Had some oats wrapped ,the cows loved them,no waste but heavy to handle,just swathed and bailed and wrapped all done in a day,55 acres. Small bails I think $5/bale plus bailing $7 then I think.

We have some wrapping going on here as well... just harder to handle and deal with vs twine/netwrapped bales.. we also do a lot of bale grazing.

[Horse]

Lots of wrapping going on around here ,but takes a bit of a crew and equiptment but seems like a good way to go,looked at perseratives yrs ago but was to cost prohibitave then, dont know now.
Had some oats wrapped ,the cows loved them,no waste but heavy to handle,just swathed and bailed and wrapped all done in a day,55 acres. Small bails I think $5/bale plus bailing $7 then I think.

[tweaker101]

So its Sunday morning and I am working the net looking for information on hay preservatives and applicators as I would like to find information on these systems good and bad for both liquid and dry powder type applications. We have never used anything before but baling is getting more and more frustrating so I guess its time to look outside of the box... or at least my box lol


Any thoughts and stories are welcome.

thanks in advance.