OSU Extension: The Way You Stack Round Bales Matters! 

Thank you! What a helpful video!

If hay is worth baling, it's worth putting under a roof for storage.

We sell round bales, and our customers say net wrap can camouflage a bad bale. We use plastic twine, with a double feed system that takes less time and rotation to secure the bale. We store as recommended, in rows, north/south oriented. We haven't been able to convince our customers to follow our plan, and they lose a lot of hay to moisture.

Farmers in my area must like to bake hay just to let them rot. Many bales sit for years and years, decades even, until they start to flatten out.

Great job.cheers from Argentina

This was very informative!

$120 jeez. I’m lucky to get 45 where I am. For 5x5’s

Never been a round bale farmer always used squares. We have many farms and horse centers around us that use round bales and the waste is absurd. I watched a horse center near us stack 700 round bales down the center of a field and cover them with tarps and they might have fead 100 of those round bales if they were lucky and had one heck of a mess in spring to clean up. It was all rotted and falling apart and they were buying hay before end of winter. I see round bale feeders all over with piles of rotted hay around them just always seems to be alot of waste with round bales. I haven't heard many great things about wrapping round bales either.

How about using tin panels as a roof over the hay. Held down by tires....

Excellent video. However, I've never understood why damp, wrapped silage makes good feed, and damp hay doesn't.