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Anonymous-0

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Couple of the local farmers baled straw in big square bales and stacked them on the fields without covering them (July and August). Today, there were several trucks lined up being loaded and hauling it off. Close to 300 bales. We've had a lot of rain since they were stacked, would the stuff even be any good?

Just curious

Dave
 
Not for bedding, unless your using it for big steers. Otherwise to much mold and to wet for other cattle or feed. Maybe the county is using it for covering roadsides that were just planted to grass. For mulch.
 
If they were stacked the outer bales would be wet and moldy but the second layer would be fine.

We use to stack little squares outside after the barn was full back in the 60"s and early 70"s and the cows ate it all. Very little mold on the top layer. As long as we gave them plenty off that top layer and didn"t strarve them they would pick out the good stuff and leave the bad.

I baled wet straw and some hay several times to beat the rain. Yep it molded. Cows calves and hogs never cared that I know of. Never lost any from it anyway.

Feed an animal good and they will not eat the bad.

Gary
 
Here in Pa we have some mushroom farms that buy up hay and straw like that. I think it's mixed with manure to grow the mushrooms in.
 
Can you go look at it? I leave the big bales out for over a year. Tight packed hay doesn't allow absorption like a sponge. What rain soaks in seems to dry out from the sun without molding. The top is the first hay eaten by the horses when I set them in a feeder. The bottom in contact with the ground is a different story. Bale absorbs moisture from the ground and the bottom few inches will mold. I try to put the bales on high ground where water drains away.
 
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