Yah it usually is.  I don't remember all the details, but somehow we got connected with a guy from over there.  They were looking for double compressed hay and we thought some about that.  They decided they wanted 10 containers just to see if they liked the hay and so that is why they were loaded not-compressed.  Part of the problem for around here is that there is no good way to load on rail.  So even if we double-compressed them, we wouldn't be able to put more in a container here because of weight restrictions on the trucks getting it to the railyard.  Don't remember why they wanted hay from the Plains instead of out west.

Anyway, that was five or six years ago and we don't do any hay anymore, so kinda glad it didn't work out.  Just an interesting situation.  I guess the dairy the hay went to was completely indoors and had a/c for the cows.  The cows had better living conditions than many of the workers over there!