Your hay bales might be shedding weight faster than a steer on Ozempic,” Mizzou hay specialist Rob Kallenbach quips.

For the benefit of those who would gain by my experience, I would state that I weighed one thousand bales of hay. I found the average weight of each bale to be eight pounds less than the marks on ...

For example, Smart Farmer Kenya states that the standard conventional two-string hay bale should measure 90 cm x 45 cm x 35 cm and weigh a minimum of 15 kilograms (18–22 kgs optimal conditions).

This also assumes the cows consume 2.5% of their body weight per day on a dry matter basis, and each bale of hay weighs 1,000 pounds and is 15% moisture. Every storage method will have some hay loss.