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"Cases of spontaneous combustion are not uncommon after haymaking." ...

As snow falls and winter descends, a lot of agricultural work is slowing down. But for farmers with livestock, they’ve got to ...

This also assumes the cows consume 2.5% of their body weight per day on a dry matter basis, and each bale of ... to handle hay tarps during covering and uncovering the hay stack.

The temperature of these hay bales, stacks, and barns can get very hot. In extreme cases, it can get so hot that the bales can catch on fire, even without a spark (i.e., spontaneous combustion).

In late December, Sugar House Creamery stacked their last shipment of hay for ... square bales." "We're going to put it in our barn. We'll feed it out all winter to our 12 dairy cows," said ...

Hay that is baled under pressure does not ... a pride in building symmetrical and water-tight stacks, it will probably not be regretted by cattle that have to eat musty and badly-saved hay from ...