Square Bales Need TLC
Ed Haag
Angus Beef Bulletin
If you are buying hay for your cattle on a regular basis, it is very likely that you will, at some time, purchase large square one-ton or half-ton bales.
“These are usually used to put up high-quality dairy hay, but some of it that doesn’t make grade for one reason or another ends up being fed to beef cattle,” says Glenn Shewmaker, Extension forage specialist at the University of Idaho. While he hesitates to classify any hay today as a bargain, Shewmaker does believe that the savvy cattleman can purchase some real feed value if he keeps his eyes open and is willing to buy on short notice and in volume.
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