Silage wrap prices today.

DrDunc

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we do 1 big late cut of mature haylage as" stay alive/maintenance" dry cow feed ,would moving up 4ft to 4 ft 6"
mean significantly less wrap used ?
No sheds so hay not really an option unless say 6 ft bales
Assuming 4 foot and 4'6" bales are the same density, you're getting 25% more in a bale for 6% more plastic to wrap the bigger diameter

4 foot/1.25m is 1.53m³
4'6"/1.4m is 1.92m³
25% more volume

1.25m bale is 5m around per turn
1.4m bale is 5.3m around per turn
6% more plastic to cover

Bale like this already with haylage, and always run at max pressure. Hate baling wet grass, that's the most expensive of all

Biggest saving I found though, was using the tedder effectively. Conditioned when cut and tedder out straight away. One more run the next morning, and provided I get the forecast right, it's baled that evening at 50% plus dry matter.

Currently make the fodder this way for both the big single cut dry cow belly filler, and the multi cut leaf that's grown for the suckling cows and the store cattle. There's far fewer bales than before the tedder was used effectively, but there's just the same amount of dry matter in them.





However I don't need to do sums to know it's now not worth growing the multi cut stuff unless store cattle price goes through the same roof that fertiliser has already demolished
 

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