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HAY PROCESSING
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Hay Processing
About 82 per cent of the 1959 hay crop of the United States was baled. Some 11 per cent was chopped, but only 7 per cent was loose hay stored in barns or outdoor stacks. Only about 40 per cent of the hay was baled in 1948, while less than 15 per cent of the 1939 crop was baled.
Baling is done with an automatic field baler, which gathers the hay from the windrow or swath. It compresses the hay to a density of 200 to 250 cubic feet per ton, or to about 40 to 50 per cent of the density of settled, stacked loose hay. The rectangular or round bales are mostly tied with twine, and usually weigh 25 to 75 pounds. The throw-type baler, which requires only one man to operate the machine, ejects the bales into a trailer towed behind the baler. Field baling exposes the hay for so long that the quantity of the hay is impaired in the event of wet weather, unless facilities for artificial drying are available so that the hay can be baled while still damp.
Chopping is done with some types of field-forage harvesters which gather the hay from the swath or windrow, chop it, and blow the material into a trailer. When it is still damp, chopped hay can be dried artificially.
Considerable baling and chopping is done by custom operators because this system is more economical than owning the machines unless at least 100 to 200 tons of hay are harvested each season.
Machines for pelleting or wafering hay in the field have been devised for processing hay that contains 12 to 16 per cent moisture. Their present capacity is lower than field balers or forage harvesters.
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About 82 per cent of the 1959 hay crop of the United States was baled. Some 11 per cent was chopped, but only 7 per cent was loose hay stored in barns or outdoor stacks. Only about 40 per cent of the hay was baled in 1948, while less than 15 per cent of the 1939 crop was baled.
Baling is done with an automatic field baler, which gathers the hay from the windrow or swath. It compresses the hay to a density of 200 to 250 cubic feet per ton, or to about 40 to 50 per cent of the density of settled, stacked loose hay. The rectangular or round bales are mostly tied with twine, and usually weigh 25 to 75 pounds. The throw-type baler, which requires only one man to operate the machine, ejects the bales into a trailer towed behind the baler. Field baling exposes the hay for so long that the quantity of the hay is impaired in the event of wet weather, unless facilities for artificial drying are available so that the hay can be baled while still damp.
Chopping is done with some types of field-forage harvesters which gather the hay from the swath or windrow, chop it, and blow the material into a trailer. When it is still damp, chopped hay can be dried artificially.
Considerable baling and chopping is done by custom operators because this system is more economical than owning the machines unless at least 100 to 200 tons of hay are harvested each season.
Machines for pelleting or wafering hay in the field have been devised for processing hay that contains 12 to 16 per cent moisture. Their present capacity is lower than field balers or forage harvesters.
Thus the explanations article about Hay Processing.
Hope it is useful. . . .
HAPPY LEARNING . . . . .
SOURCE:
Book Principles of Field Crop Production | John H. Martin - Warren H. Leonard | COLLIER Macmillan (1967)
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