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The Equine market has led to a resurgence of the small square baler market, there is a lot of hay made with large square balers as this is the most efficient for road transport

On round or small square you can bale up to 30% but normally people will not go over 26% On large square maximum moisture is 27% and from personnel experience hay stored at 26% with the correct preservative levels will feed out like dry but without the dust. On cost talking to a farmer last...

Well found, the research was commissioned by Harvesttec to compare intakes, in North America the product is regulated as fungicide, so extensive testing was carried out to prove both it's efficacy and safety for all livestock.

Morning popsdosh, if you are hearing of BC treated hay heating, there will normally be three possible reasons, the hay is being baled at too higher moisture for the amount of BC being applied or the bale weight that the automatic system is being programmed with is too low and the operator is...

Firstly there is more than one hay preservative on the market and they are not all made equal and I can only speak for ours. I know of Cambridgeshire hay producers that use and that don't. I know of hay treated with our product being used by the "happy hacker" all the way through to the top. I...

Good evening, reference to "Round up" hay - if you spray grass with Glyphosate then the entire grass plant would die. Moving on to Balers choice, I have a good knowledge, BC is made of propionic acid, this is an organic acid that is naturally occurring in the horses Caecum which is part of the...