Haying season... hopefully and the frustrations with being able to bale

[smcgrath76]

We use a Gandy applicator and a product made from wheat middlings. It has a bacteria in it and no acid or salts. We have baled greenfeed up to 25+ % moisture and will get some mold at those levels, but it is the brown tobacco type of mold that cows love. For baling at 15-20% moisture it works really well and we usually use a bit if we are baling alfalfa, so we can bale wetter and maintain the leaves. I will have to look up the product name. I always call it Pixie Dust but that is not the trade name. There are tons of those Gandys in our neighbourhood. The advantage of the stuff we use is that it doesn't rust out your baler and also doesn't restrict intake due to high salt in the feed.

[Taiga]

The modern liquid buffered propionic acids do not cause rust either. The solutions prior did but not the current products.
Definitely want to aim for dry hay, adding preservative is just a bandaid.