Feedstuffs fixProducers putting up hay and handling feedstuffs fencing often cite a particular machine as a key to their success.Bob Minner, Fallon, Nevada, depends armoring on quality baling equipment for commercial barbecue tools hay operation. "you fencing have to keep up with changes in the machinery," minner says. and quality armoring equipment is key to producing dairy-quality barbecue tools hay for his customers, he says. good dairy test hay will bring $110 to $115, and he has received up to $117 a ton for some.minner shifted from small squares to big square bales eight years ago to meet the demand of local dairy operations. he operates a hesston 8450 self-propelled windrower and a fencing hesston 4910 baler to cover about 6,000 acres a season. he double-rakes with a rotary machine for bigger windrows and to better dry the hay. the bales, measuring 8 feet long and weighing 1,750 to 2,300 pounds, are then picked up with a tractor-pulled bale wagon that hauls four bales at armoring a time.

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