When I was growing up in the ’60s, there was little choice about how to store hay.

It was virtually all stored in small square bales and much of it was stored in a barn loft.

With the advent of large round balers, large square balers and hay wrappers, producers now have a multitude of choices on how to store their hay, but the small square bale still has a strong place in the marketplace.

You don’t have to pick up too many livestock magazines to know there is a lot of talk about high-density, short-duration grazing … better known as “mob” grazing.

I’m not sure I really like the term “mob” grazing because it makes you think that you will pulverize the site, and in some cases I think that is what has happened.

Over the past decade, dairy producers have increased their use of corn silage as a forage source in dairy rations.

This has been influenced by the high price of feed, especially corn, and corn silage’s high energy content, which can substitute and reduce corn inclusion rates.