Easy Forage Moisture Test For Baleage
We perform a Microwave-based test on alfalfa to determine the current moisture in the crop! We are aiming for 40-60% moisture for optimal fermentation to preserve the quality of the hay after it is wrapped.
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Ryan,take it from an old man married for 51 years!! Do not use the house microwave 🙄 to check hay moisture. Go to a yard sale and buy an old cheap one to do your test in your shop. Fun video!! Thanks 😊.
Ryan, I have baled a lot of baleage the last 10 years. I prefer baling the windrows just the way yours are laying. Yes it is more travel for the baler but bales much better and you can run faster. It may dry more than you want by raking it.
I’ve dried lumber for over 35 years. The method we used to determine mc was, wet minus dry, divided by wet, times 100. It’s very accurate, and I believe it works for pretty much anything. And you don’t need a specific amount of sample.
congrats and welcome back to youtube
I've seen guys take a piece of PVC pipe and cap the end and drill a hole in big enough for the probe to go in. Stuff it full and then test. Take care!
I was wondering what Miss Hannah was going to say about this!
Welcome to the brotherhood of having a wife to question you all the time lol happy wife=happy life
Great job Ryan! Good luck on hay/ baleage making.
Thanks Ryan that was very interesting on the drying fact pretty cool!!! Thanks for taking the time to show us that and for continuing with the outstanding videos as always. Also thanks for showing your wedding was awesome felt like got to be part of the special day. Congrats again Ryan and Hannah and wish u guys all the best and a great life together!!! Have a good one!!!
Another great video Ryan !!
Note to self, send Ryan an old Microwave for Mad Science Experiments..
Congratulations to the two of you!
Pretty amazing to see how u can test the moisture in the hay.
Great video. Love all the videos you do for us non farmers. I always learn something in your videos.
Love this channel. Every time I get a notification I get exited
Awesome Dude! A matching shirt to go with a fine cap! Keep that baling going round and round! -Bob...
So happy for you guys and hope she is in more videos
Thanks for the video Ryan!
Love videos that's a neat way to figure moisture!!
Great video!
Great vid as usual Ryan!
Can't wait to see the wrapper in action again👍😉
Thanks Ryan! Cool trick
Congratulations to you two
Great video Ryan.
Ty for sharering and the contest
Very interesting process......thanks for sharing
Send some hay down south! We are bad dry and hay is very short.
Great stuff Mrs and Mr Kuster👌👍😎
Thanks for the video Ryan, very interesting experiment looking forward to seeing you guys baling it👍🇺🇸
Very interesting, thanks for the video
Have been contractor doing this for over 30 years in Australia. Easier quicker test is take good handfull in both hands close together and screw it till breaks(needs some strength). If you can feel moisture on break to wet it looks/feels dry to dry but looks moist it’s right. Have done hundreds of thousands bales this way.
@maxmoo3275
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That works well for DRY hay not high moisture baleage.
Thanks for another cool video
Congrats to the new boss, sorry to hear that you have been demoted so soon Ryan.
@HowFarmsWork
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I got a couple laughs out of this video always love your sense of humor
Congratulations on your wedding ! About your tee shirts, is it possible to design them with pockets ?
Thanks for the videos!
Another awesome video…thanks
That was pretty cool 👍
paper plates are always microwaveable XD
Very easy way to get divorced if ruin the microwave! I would say a bucket probe is safer and remember test at points in field as will dry differently. Some manufacturers offer a sensor for a baler also in Europe to read it for you
It was a really good first cut hopefully you get alot of bales out of it.
DIDNT SEE YOU AROUND FOR AWHILE. FIGURED YOU WERE TIRED HAD TO REST UP AFTER THE WEDDING...LOL LOL
In East TN in normal conditions we usually mow in the morning the bale and wrap the following afternoon. The bailer usually goes in about 20 minutes after the rake starts.
Awesome videos
Yes
A great video on what not to know about baleage.
Hey he’s got a Raikes hat on! Pretty cool
Keep up good content almost at 300😎
Hey, this reminds me of the "Burrito verse Microwave" Yeah That exploded huge... I have a new microwave now
Love the video I don’t have any ideas but I’ll see if the German farmers have a good ideas
Congratulations on your wedding
great info
Hey, Ryan! I have nothing to say about moisture content, but I'll definitely buy the new shirt when it comes out.
Ryan forgot to clean the microwave after cooking grass. Lingering smells and tastes lol. To the dog house you go🤣🤣🤣
That was very interesting
Good 👍 job man
Congratulations on your wedding.
Congratulations again on your marriage, wishing you all the best in the years ahead.
Thats pretty interesting actually.
How will it take to dry the grass to bale? Thank you for sharing your story. God bless you and your family.
Finally gonna be back up in Wisconsin this weekend. I’ve been living in Iowa this summer and I just fell icky lol.
Great video Ryan lol
I use a windrow moisture sensor but I only bale dry hay for horses. It seems to be accurate, no issues at this point.
Ryan, interested to hear your thoughts on a JD 4520
Never heard of a method like that, always thought you just guessed when it was ready.
Hello great video have a nice day
Very nice 👍
I like videos that are both informative and entertaining. 👍🏻😉 Very interesting on how to check the moisture. And it's not grass it's roughage and every diet needs a little roughage LOL. I need to get me some of those new t-shirts I like the design it's very cool. 🇺🇲 As always, love your videos!!
Never knew what the moisture was that high after so many hours after you cut it good experiment
Here’s the comment from On the other side of the river in NE Iowa !
Yes Ryan they are micrwaveabke
You can use the bale moisturizer meter and grab a handful just squeeze it around it and check the moisture that way
I have only a congratulations to you two, again, and a city boy like me really does need a farm on Shirt.
Hey Ryan, interesting, we have baled & wraped 2 - 10 hrs after cutting, raking one hr. Before baling, excellent feed. Great video, 👍
@jerrylansbury9558
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Your so right......most people / farmers dont know how to handle wet hay. Most times Ive cut and baled hay off the field the same day. Gain almost another crop per year......in growing back time. Major savings ! Been wrapping hay for 20 years........Id never do dry hay again !
Ryan you can get a moisture tester that a lot of farmers use before chopping hay and corn silage. You weigh out your 100 grams plug the tester in for 30 minutes and bam you have your moisture
Good luck or should I say be Blessed with the baleage!
Hi there. Congrats. There are moisture probs you can buy. Was around 100.00 in canada
Ryan great video as usual! That shirt would be nice at my new lucky 13 in upstate ny!!
Congratulations on your marriage. I hope you have a Grate harvest. Take care of her, they really only come around once.
Winner winner hay dinner lol
Aha cooking GRASS now, your supposed to SMOKE it HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ryan, I'm sure you already know this but we use a Koster tester. True, it is more expensive than the microwave but once you own one you will have a more reliable test and you would probably never need to replace it considering how often it would be used.
@afarmlife
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I'm just here for the shirt lol 2x
Woo-hoo bloop !!!
really love your videos is there any way of getting your shirts in like xlt or 2xlt
Hey Ryan!! Wonder who thought up nuking hay? Have a great weekend.
There’s nothing like the smell of freshly cut alfalfa. Its has to be the best smell.
Try agratronix windrow moisture tester.
awsome video ryan lol i can just imagine how hannah feels about the hole hay in the microwave thing hehehehehehe that was funny i do got to say that thumbs up and shared
Your awesome
How is the crops doing the beans in the corn are they going pretty good and how much rain did y'all get
You probably should get yourself a “shop” microwave. 😂
Congratulations on getting married Ryan and I hope that you make more videos
Good luck
I've never done that test before but i remember hearing people say to not use a good microwave in your house when you do it because of the smell it makes
You can also use your oven to test it
Great video on the moisture test and by the way remember happy wife happy life
Would be interesting to bale a bale and take the moisture with the probe and use this method
Winner winner, chicken dinner! 😜