← 1.1 Conserving Animal Feed: Hay
Box-bale or stack — only when dry
Agriculture · Grade 9 · about 40 minutes
School conservation uses a timber box-bale or a peaked stack. Both start with snap-dry forage. Wet packing spoils the store.
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- 10 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
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Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Hay is dried forage, not silage
- Why conserve forage for drought
- Cut at the right stage
- Wilt the swath until it is hay-dry
- Ted: spread and turn the swath
- Box-bale or stack — only when dry
- Store hay off the ground, dry
- Judge hay: colour, smell, leaf — no mould
- Feed hay in drought — rack, water, no mould
- Keep a hay record
- Adopt hay conservation at home
- Review: the hay chain for drought