What’s this barn dried hay I keep seeing advertised

[michael N123]

Is it how is it made

 

[Sid]

Is it how is it made

With a lister fan?

 

[kill]

More likely under floor blown heating via a biomass boiler these days.

 

[betweenthelines]

Think one of those bales is straw!

And looking at how far the loads straps have bit into the top bale, I'd say there aint much in a bale anyway

 

[Fendt516profi]

@Derrick Hughes

 

[michael N123]

More likely under floor blown heating via a biomass boiler these days.

What so wrap them then cut the plastic off to dry at a later date? Or would be long cut pit silage then baled once dried

 

[Cowmansam]

I’d have thought baled green and dried in shed under floor or with grain tunnels among the stack

 

[kill]

What so wrap them then cut the plastic off to dry at a later date? Or would be long cut pit silage then baled once dried

No wrap. Baled pre ideal moisture for hay and then placed on a mesh type floor and forced heat and air blown through them until the desired moisture content is reached. Hence bales have lost moisture so there for softer than the baled pressure .

 

[farmerm]

I settle for sun dried hay.

 

[kill]

I settle for sun dried hay.

Not always possible in uk climate

 

[Lincsman]

Common thing back in the 1960's

 

[Cowmansam]

Looks nice stuff anyway

 

[kill]

@agricontract ( hopefully right person) has a drying floor and drys wood chip, straw and other products

 

[Pistonbroke]

I remember going to place from college near penrith in 1990 making small bale hay fan dried in May and it was 72d value

 

[farmerm]

Not always possible in uk climate

Is usually possible either the week before or 3 weeks after it gets cut

 

[Sid]

Common thing back in the 1960's

And what a ball ache that was!
Then someone invented bale wrap.

 

[Pistonbroke]

We borrowed a lister fan once when a thunderstorm soaked a field of little bales before we could move them. Steam going out of the shed roof

 

[betweenthelines]

I remember going to place from college near penrith in 1990 making small bale hay fan dried in May and it was 72d value

D value is related to the stage of growth when the grass is cut.

No amount of hot air (from any source) can change it.

 

[Pistonbroke]

D value is related to the stage of growth when the grass is cut.

No amount of hot air (from any source) can change it.

No sh*t sherlock. I meant not many people making small bale hay,second week in May in a wet part of Cumbria 800 ft up

 

[michael N123]

No sh*t sherlock. I meant not many people making small bale hay,second week in May in a wet part of Cumbria 800 ft up

I can’t make hay in fecking July/augest up here