Quote Originally Posted by WmRMeyers View Post
That wrap better be very porous, or the hay very dry, or that bale of hay is going to be moldy has heck real soon.
The wrap is not porous but you can lay bet that is a grower has the money for one of those machines he also has a meter to check the moisture of the windrows there will be one on his baler as well and if the moisture reaches 18% a professional baler with stop baling.
We used to judge the moisture in alfala bales by the weight of the bales this was the small or standard square bales that is a 45 lb. bale was dry, 55 lb. bales were barn stackable 65 to 75 stack them lose with lots of space between them anything over 80 lbs leave them in the field another day. One farmer hired my cousins and me to haul his hay. He wanted it hauled stacked and tarped as fast as possible. He had a huge new swather with a baler connected to it cut and baled all in 1 pass that may be fine for mature hay but what he was cutting instead of baling he should have been making silage, but these bales all averaged over 120 lbs you could squeeze water out of the leaves and stems, we stacked it a loose as possible but the poor bugger still lost a lot of it due to mold fortunately none of the stacks caught fire