Coloured wrap, what's the point.

[Greythundercloudys]

Do those different colours make any odds to the bales, l very much doubt it, pink, green, white, and black.

 

[John Chance]

Tells you which cut / which field in the stack ?

 

[Greythundercloudys]

Yes, that's about all, no difference in fermentation etc. Just coloured stuff is more fashionable.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Certain colours are for cancer charities
White reflects the heat better than black

 

[Nithsdale]

Pink and purple are for cancer.

Pink gives money to breast cancer
Purple gives money to mens prostate cancer.



The plastics are all the same and need colour pigmentation to stabilise them against the sun's UV rays.

This new clear plastic they've supposedly figured out how to stabilise the UV without adding colour... this means the plastic can be used for far more things when recycled.

Black wrap will forever be black plastic no matter how much recycling is done, for instsnce, which limits its use.

We are going to use 1 or 2 rolls of the clear stuff this year as a trial and see how we get on. We make 1100-1200 bales a year and have always used black (we found no benefits using white or green when we tried them)

 

[v8willy]

Green turns the heat, only stuff for doing haylege.

 

[shearerlad]

Tells you which cut / which field in the stack ?

Use about 3-4 rolls of different coloured wrap for that reason. One field we take silage from is next to the town and a very popular dog walking route. Means that it’s easy to distinguish abd fed to young stock only. Plus giving a couple of quid a roll extra for charity

 

[neilo]

Green turns the heat, only stuff for doing haylege.

Whenever I’ve used green for haylage there has been an awful lot more mould on bales, which I have heard from plenty of others as well. If a contractor turned up with green wrap now he’d be stopped as soon as I saw it and sent home to fetch someblack wrap to do it properly.

Someone mentioned the other day that they thought pale coloured/white wrap attracts bugs on the outside more (or makes them more visible), so birds sit and peck the wrap as they are hoovering the bugs up.

 

[Purli R]

Nice pretty stack.

 

[Fendt516profi]

Use about 3-4 rolls of different coloured wrap for that reason. One field we take silage from is next to the town and a very popular dog walking route. Means that it’s easy to distinguish abd fed to young stock only. Plus giving a couple of quid a roll extra for charity

You need a twin dispenser wrapper you can identify more fields

 

[Nearly]

Multicoloured bales matter.

 

[Boohoo]

Tried pink wrap and purple wrap, I think it's just another attempt by some companies to sell their poor quality wrap. After disappointing results, even with 8 layers, we're back to premium brand black wrap and green wrap.

 

[kill]

Tried pink wrap and purple wrap, I think it's just another attempt by some companies to sell their poor quality wrap. After disappointing results, even with 8 layers, we're back to premium brand black wrap and green wrap.

Only using the best quality wrap here as well as the risks to high for a few pence saving and with cardboard cores I can burn boxes and cores.

 

[Whitepeak]

It was nearly all white wrap in Sweden when I visited a few years ago. Not sure why.

Remember thinking it must be a nightmare trying to find bales the morning after a snowstorm ?

 

[dogandstick]

It was nearly all white wrap in Sweden when I visited a few years ago. Not sure why.

Remember thinking it must be a nightmare trying to find bales the morning after a snowstorm ?

easier to find in the dark though

 

[Pan mixer]

I prefer white, less heat, I alternate with green though for different batches, hardly ever use black.

 

[Ted M]

We tried white last year after some wrapped with black started to deteriorate in the strong sun of 2018 (good quality brand).
This year we've gone all white for the summer but will probably move back onto black (£2/roll cheaper) for later cuts when it's cooler.
The difference in temperature is unbelievable, white in full sun is cool to touch while black stored under the panels on the baler you could hardly put your hand on.

 

[Spencer]

Red is the best for fermentation I believe...

 

[Sir loin]

we wrap black and green on a twin dispenser the crows do not pester it as much

 

[v8willy]

Whenever I’ve used green for haylage there has been an awful lot more mould on bales, which I have heard from plenty of others as well. If a contractor turned up with green wrap now he’d be stopped as soon as I saw it and sent home to fetch someblack wrap to do it properly.

Someone mentioned the other day that they thought pale coloured/white wrap attracts bugs on the outside more (or makes them more visible), so birds sit and peck the wrap as they are hoovering the bugs up.

If you look at green bales you can see the grass through it a bit, there's a theory the birds think it's worms & attack it more.
Sometimes stuff kept the second year is kinda burnt looking, seems to help it somitemes tho.
UK & Ireland seems to be the only countries in Europe to use black wrap

we wrap black and green on a twin dispenser the crows do not pester it as much

Humbugs, hate the look of them myself but they seem popular.