[TR] another view..........

[Randall]

> Now that I think of it, in the last five or so years I've only bought 
> hay tied with twine and not baling wire.  New breed of bailers?

Wow, I'm amazed you could find wire bales even that recently.  It's been
known for many decades that bits of wire wind up in the stomachs of
livestock fed with hay bound with wire; and I thought the argument over
whether it harmed the livestock was settled several decades ago.  There are
workarounds, like "cow magnets", but it's simpler and safer to just not feed
them the wire in the first place.  At any rate, I believe my grandfather had
already been using twine for many years in 1962 (my earliest memory of a hay
bale).

The "new generation" of hay balers appear to all be round balers, and I've
not seen any of those that use wire instead of twine.  Are you still buying
"square" bales?

-- Randall