Cat Fever, you don't need to buy a small round baler to get small round bales. You can buy any round baler and make them any diameter you choose. Just tie them before the baler is full! You can put a mark to indicate where you like to quit so the bales will be the same diameter.
Cat. I'm not sure what is considered a good yield in your part of the country. Here that kind of yield is very poor. That's about what my thin hay made this year. My highest yielding field this year made over 3 tons per acre. This is fescue and orchardgrass. But we get the rain also.
Here in Texas back during the drought 1.6 tons per acre per cutting would have been considered a bumper crop. 1st cutting of Coastal this yr only made 4 rd bales (4X5.5) to acre that I'm guessing weight around 1000#s each which equates to 2 ton per acre.
Nice, I sure enjoy seeing a nice green field.
I was able to get my bales out of the field and in the barn. I weighed a few and the average is 90 pounds. Yes my back hurts.:mur: next year they WILL be lighter. I ended up with 8.3 tons.
Here's a couple pics.
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All put up.
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