How To Store Large Round Bales Outdoors | John Deere Tips Notebook

You’ve spent a lot of time and money to plant, grow, cut, dry, rake, and bale your hay. So now is the time to follow a few basic tips for bale storage so you can limit storage losses and maximize hay quality at feed time.
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[@pittbulldawg93]

It's so cool doing this on farming simulator and then seeing it done in real life!!

[@2ndgenerationfarmer340]

Actually don’t let them touch so snow can’t set on the crease between them and rot them.

[@bradchoq]

If you're having trouble with them rotting at the crease, you're not making your sides hard enough by putting too much material in the middle of the bale.

[@2ndgenerationfarmer340]

@@bradchoq oh no there hard all around. But we like to have hay for 2 maybe 3 years as extra for bad weather

[@chucklohnes7652]

Wet areas don’t put them together. Drier climate doesn’t matter. North east keep them apart.

[@critterfestsanctuary2446]

Thank you soooo much. My friend just gave me two rolls and I had no clue how to store them. Being clueless I almost rolled one into a very shady area and covered it with a tarp or worse yet, plastic. YIKES !!! Lol.

[@bradchoq]

OMG. you don't use a corn/bean planter to seed grass... Grain drill footage would've been more appropriate.

[@TheJuniorFarmer724]

Ollys farm does this with his 6155R

[@sharandajohnson1639]

First like

[@RoughRiderBB]

Store under roof!

[@winkdinkerson7190]

I’ll never understand why anybody committed to producing superior quality hay when assessing all your cost inputs and ability to sell for $100 bucks or more per bale, would not invest in bale storage facilities that could be fully paid for in less than five years.

[@steveogden1829]

You are 100% correct. We store all bales under roof and spoilage is nearly zero and bales leftover are just fine the next winter.

[@c46236]

I see it this way, the equipment plus storage makes the farming to expensive to be profitable.
Problem is not the hay but the bales, you invest a fortune just to get an extra problem that gets wasted.
Hay can be simple stored raw around a pole with a tip: no baler, no storage, will preserve better than indoors. What you need is a buck rake, a trailer, a pole and a couple of good hands.

[@c46236]

You dont, if you are to the point of storing large bales outside doing bales if completly the wrong approach.