Sliced bales are easier to keep and they feed out easier. Sometimes we get behind in our cutting and the grass gets long. You still get an easy-feed bale. Sheldon and Barbara Clark, who run a custom baling operation in New York, also validate the Penn State findings about the benefits of sliced bales with their own experience. Most farmers in this area would like to put it in a TMR system.
Sliced bales feed into a mixer wagon.
You can't put round bales into a mixer wagon. The only other option is to go out and buy a bale chopper. The bales are packed so tight, there's no air in there and no mold. All bales were wrapped in netting and core-sampled, and then enclosed in plastic wrap at the storage site where they remained undisturbed in outside storage for about three months until the feeding trial was initiated. Initial heifer weight averaged 966 lbs.