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Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot | $55-70 ton. Thats for 3x4 big squares roadsided at the edge of the field, loaded on buyers truck. It's not worth a whole lot so we try not to have to move or stack it. It's usually worth about a third of that in the windrow.
3 tie bales can be worth $3-4.50 depending on whether it's out of the field or out of a barn in February . They usually prefer pretty straw, barley straw. Often will windrow it with a swather after the combine. Wheat straw is generally for beef cattle or dairy feed, so chaff and whatever is fine, so it tends to get put in big bales out of the combine.
Prefer to bale late night or early in the morning to get dew on it. Makes better bales, more weight per bale, and just bales easier. But that's also when we are putting up hay, so at times it's whenever. As long as your under 15% it's fine. I've only seen it too high once, and that was a big dew after a rain on some green straw. Never seen it where we couldn't bale right behind the combine if you had time.
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Anyone knowledgeable on wheat straw?
