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Wisconsin | Every year we use it but we run it threw a forage harvester Gehl 800 to be exact or 1060 when getting new knives. Hard on knives but the best absorbent material for bedding. We blow it into a huge pile outside with a forage blower so the dirt and dust filter out pretty good. It seal's pretty well after a rain with some loss to rain or snow depending on the year. Baling is nothing but stick's and absorb's nothing some have success with baler's with knives but still kind of stickly. One fall a large dairy combined the bean's at about 17% moisture and chopped the stubble and ran it in a silo with QLF. for feed and the cattle loved and milked off it. A hassle to dry the bean's and other cost variation's involved but if they couldn't get hay available said they would do it again. Some pesticides were a concern also but as I've said the dairy I work for has chopped it for over 30 year's continuously. | |
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