hay

[randy47]

how many square bales in a 5x4 round bale???

 

[Brokenwrench]

Depending on the type of hay, a 5x4 is around 1200 to 1300 lbs. So for instance if you have 50 lb squares there would be 24-26 bales in one round..

 

[Allan in NE]

There is just something about those square bales that make it seem like a couple hundred tho.................. :>)

Allan

 

[TGIN]

I`ve ran side by side before and would put out 17 to 20 sq. to round . Ya have to remember the sqs. are 100% feed . The round can run from maybe 100% the day you bale it down to 60% depending on how it`s stored and some of the good still ends up as bedding but know matter how ya look at it the round baler is one great invention !!

 

[IaGary]

Allan there is this big old barn here with about 4000 idiot cubes in it.

I would like to empty it to get rid of the old hay.

Would you please come help me? It can wait till winter. I will give you room and board if you can come this way.~})

Gary

 

[Brokenwrench]

If your gonna have a hay shortage that way with all the flooding, advertise it for 1.50 a bale pick-up, let em haggle you down to 1.25-1.00. You`ll have the barn cleaned out and $4,000 in your pocket...

 

[hayray]

that would be about $20,000 worth of hay around here. Gary you must have been planning of feeding them to those cattle that you got rid of, no reason to have that much crop from last year with hay market so strong?

 

[IaGary]

Those little bales of hay are 9 to 15 years old.

Around here guys stock pile hay.

No one wants to run out.

If you have your own cattle and you have a bad hay year what do you do? I suppose you could buy but if you have no hay, neither do the guys close by. Trucking in hay is costly, you might as well sell the cows as to truck in hay. Just my thoughts anyway.

I still have 48 cows. Will go to 30 this winter.

If I didn't bale for 3 years I would have enough to feed them thru the winters.

Big round bale barn is full also.

Oh by the way if you want that barn full of hay for $15,000 you can have it. And I'll sell all the cows when the big bales are gone. $4.00 small squares and $1.10 calves do not make money.

Gary

 

[IaGary]

No hay shortage here. Most of the hay in this area is on upper land. The lower land is more fertile and that is where we raise corn and beans.

Hay yields are good. As they are every where.

Only reason for any shortage here is hay ground was planted to corn or beans.

Gary

 

[IH2444]

yeah and that is why the round bales are just plain wunnerful.

 

[IH2444]

best year in about 4 years for hay in my neighborhood.

 

[RickL]

how many are still together(not broken) just little advertise of cheap hay and it wll be gone,I am needing more right now completely out of small squares already, been trying year to bale thats for sure but I still have shop and home so no big deal. What type crop is it and what you want for it.

 

[IaGary]

It is all second cutting alfalfa with a little grass mixed in.

The cattle still eat it just fine. I use it for the bulls and feed a few to the calves after weaning every year.

The only broken bales are on the top were a little water comes in the windows. But I feed them out every year.

I may feed my calves all squares this year and from now on to get rid of it.

Gary

 

[Vernon in Ks]

Depends on the density of each. I make a 4x5 bale that weighs #1000 and squares between #65 and #70 so that comes out to approx. 14-15 small squares per round bale.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I'm the exception not the norm, but I lost 50+ acres of bottom land pasture hay in the flood. Baled 3 acres of it where I had planted some trefoil just so the trefoil could compete, but I think it was more dirt than hay.

You're right though, $1.00 - $1.10 calves sure don't pay. I'll probably just sell down my herd instead of trying to buy crap hay at $90/ton.

Check out this comparison of 2007 vs 2008 food prices. Beef and Pork remain steady while everything else skyrockets. I was expecting $1.25 - $1.50 calves by now just to cover the fuel cost. I'm really not sure what's keeping the price down. Still better off than the poor hog farmers though.
Food Prices 2007 vs 2008