On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My FIL was one of the very first farmers in Iowa to go to the round bales.
> He continued to do some square bales for years after for resale only. His
> own operation was 100% round. It entirely changed the labor economics. One
> person could do everything solo. It enabled him to run about 70 head of
> cattle with no help way into his retirement years.
>
>
I forgot that was the other main advantage to the big-ass round bales. You
set a big, round, open-framework metal thingy in the middle of the feedlot,
one guy with a forklift can drop the bale into the holder, and the cows can
eat for a week with no further labor.
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