From Standby To Mainstay: Baleage helps Illinois grower manage moisture

摘要

Twelve years ago, Kendall Gui-ther started wrapping 45%- to 55%-moisture bales for baleage, primarily as a rainy-day backup. Today this perennial winner in the baleage division of the World's Forage Analysis Superbowl puts up dry hay only in optimum weather conditions - when he can get the best quality possible. Baleage takes a lot of the weather worries off his shoulders and helps him take six cuttings in his Walnut, IL, area where others get only four.