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

and weigh about 50 pounds (23 kilograms). Large hay bales (generally round): Measure 5 feet wide by 6 feet in diameter (1.5 × 1.8 meters) while weighing around 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms).

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 ...