With extreme hay prices, do this to preserve your investment in your stored hay bales. 

Most grow their own here in Central Texas. So many folks around here have been in a huge bind for hay unless they have the know-how to produce it. We are realizing it is best to be self-reliant. Even if it means buying and learning how to repair junky old equipment. During droughts and hard times, it is every man for himself. We learned this the hard way.

At about the same time they told us to drink 8 glasses of water a day they told us to stop eating salt..... and they've been deluding ever since.

good food is probably one of the most important things in life...

Glad you had that privilege to know Marshall! Those sharp old guys were a national treasure. I miss the Marshall's in my life too.

Love hearing your stories! RIP Marshall. Pearls of wisdom on investing on the important things, with money and/or time, and taking care of the investment.

Greg they do still make them like that….all the young men you have mentors, all the ranchers you have taught regenerative farming to and all of u tube….we love your story, we want your kind of life. Great things will be said about you forever

Started doing that last year. Much better results

Absolutely solid log-ic🤝🤣🤣

Cedar logs that don’t make lumber work great for this too. We have a lot of cedar where the logs taper off quickly.

I rolled out a bale of Rhodes grass today and I smelled summer time.

Fresh hay smells great

Love the Marshall stories. That's great

Great advice about storing hay. I enjoyed the Marshall story. Their generation was special.

i have learned so much from you

great channel

Great story!

I have been doing this for the past year and it works well. I use “retired” wood power poles free from my electric coop. I space the same 27-28” and can stack 8 or 9 bales on each pair of poles. My tractor or bale mover can straddle and clear as I pull each bale to feed in fall and winter. Being stacked end to end, I like the extra protection from weather.

Thanks! I would like to convert our hay fields to pasture one day soon. I hope we can find a good source of hay.

I'm just starting my homestead and recently needed straw to mulch some swales. Once I realized it would cost me $400 for the amount I needed I decided to take my scythe to the invasive grasses we've got. Saved me money and now I know how to use a scythe.

Looks nice.

Love those Marshall stories! Made me feel good, too, because I don't drink water for the same reason. Also, if government tells you it's good, well, you already know what that means...

Thanks for the video! Also, I would put honey on mine too. 😂 I can tell the bales are so much easier to feed when off the ground like yours too. I think the best hay is at the bottom of the bale because everything is protecting that area so why not keep it off the ground.

I have a couple of areas in mind to use the cold weather circle feeding techniques to carbon load future garden sites.

I sure could use some of those Amish boys in the paddock i was grazing today and what a great story for some perspective! Thats a lovely looking pasture now Greg. How long has that been resting?

Greg, Im just switching to round bales, I have a small farm, and I just bought one of your Hay Unroller. Do you tarp your round bales? Also, I had no idea those suckers were 100 inches across! Im going to have to replace most of my gates!

Greg.. thank you for covering this topic. The sheperdess just brought up the lawsuit for the big private group of meat buyers getting from the amish.. pretty shocking topic. What is your opinion on the amish meat association being fined six figures, and being shut down for what is essentially not even about people being tainted by their private association of farm meat, more so about a agency stamped paperwork and fee just to have an agency inspector look over their groups meat, which is clearly not an issue health wise?

Great video! How much money do you estimate you saved by stacking? Thanks for all you do.

Would you unroll round bales if you only have 2 or 3 cows or would you just but the next round bale in a different spot in the pasture?

Could you use fresh mushrooms logs every fall then move them to the woods in the spring?

If you butt them up against each other, end to end, it decreases the weather which can reach the ends.

My question is how did you do this before you had any equipment like a tractor or skid steer? Did you borrow or rent?

I’m in southern Oklahoma and have run cow calf since 05 on native bluestem with no hay or cake year round. I’m only supplying fce mineral,Is hay something I should look at doing, is there a advantage.

Like a bowl of shredded wheat. As a kid I was sure they were the same.

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Greg, what is your opinion on this? When you talked about the cedar covered ridge and clearing the cedar, which I have done on my place also. Now that the slopes and tops are cleared, I still have gullys in the draws, so now I think that maybe I should have cleared the lower draws and gullys, leaving only a few hardwood trees for shade, but not fully shading the ground so fence and maybe some other grass like turkey foot can grow in and along the draws. So what I'm thinking now is that maybe I should have cleared the draws first allowing some grass to grow there by allowing the sun to hit the ground there. At least part of the day. Perhaps it would help to put a hot wire up and down the sides of the gullys to protect the grass in the gullys. While after the gullys are pretty well cleared then working on the slopes and hilltops! I see most everywhere people clear the slopescand hill tops but I just wonder if clearing the bottoms of the slopes first? What do you think? I'm in southeast Kansas, where the lay of the land is similar to the middle of Missouri, which im thinking thats where it looks like you are.

From a hay producer you show hay at the beginning of your videos separate. You need to butt your hay tightly butt to butt preserved the ends nice and green.

Hi Greg. What is a Round bale worth in your neck of the woods? Here in Alberta they are from $100-150. Have a great day.

Top three cash crops in the US , Corn, Soybeans, Hay, followed by Wheat, Weed, Peanuts and Oats.

Thoughts on billboard tarps ?

Hey Greg, do you know if South Poll cattle would do well in North-Central Ohio?

Years like this with hay prices makes me glad I don't buy all of my hay! Wow...absurd prices this year.

Approximately how many bales you buy each year?

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You ever put sea salt on the hay

Why not nail the logs into a rectangle so they are always 28 inches.

Do wildlife use these bails for shelter

Setting your bales up off the ground: 👍But don't you lose hay quality or nutritional value of a bale just by storing it outside versus inside a covered barn by the time it comes to feeding it out? Just thinking of how to get the most out of hay investment.

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Can someone confirm this is just for his cows and not sheep

A Lot of dead young wise men. Not to many old fools.

He's 100per cent right,been storing t

You don’t lose a third of the bale.

You want some osage orange for your bale logs?

Mr Judy, I noticed both you and Patara are buying hay. I'm not educated enough to understand why neither of you grow your own hay. I'm about to have those darn loggers return to finish their job. I planned on sowing seeds for rotational grazing and other pasture for growing hay to store... I fear being held over a barrel if I can't produce all/most of the food needed for my future animals... and myself. But am I missing something? Please explain why you don't grow your own hay. Blessings!

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That’s what my kids eat. 🥣 And make their hats 👒 from too. 👨‍🌾👩🏻‍🌾👩🏼‍🌾