Greetings from the Granstroms.

The calendar has turned over to May and haying season is upon us. We’re harvesting 2500 acres of alfalfa this year. We’ll be baling 2000 acres of native grass hay again and this year we added 1000 acres of irrigated wheat straw. We’re rotating some older alfalfa stands with soybeans and will be summer seeding 600 acres of new alfalfa.

We’re excited to offer more choices in bale sizes. We’ll be running a Krone 1270 multi-bale machine this year. It’s an innovative baler that makes up to 8 small bales inside a 28x48x96 bale. Each minibale will be roughly 100 pounds. The package allows you to mechanically handle large bales, yet have the convenience of the small bales. See the Krone link for details. This bale size might be convenient for stables, feed stores, smaller dairies or erosion control projects.

We will continue to offer inspected, weed-free grass hay and straw. Please place your order now for low potassium grass hay, straw or alfalfa. We have a limited supply.

The energy price has affected us all. We try to minimize our freight charges by efficiently loading and dispatching our trucks. We appreciate all the cooperation from our customers in doing so. If we work together, we’ll get through this time of high energy costs.
 

This bale can be handled with a loader or

cut the outside strings and it can be handled by hand.

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