Net Wrap Guide

A round bale of fresh alfalfa in a hayfield -- the kind of well-made net-wrapped bale you want to strip cleanly without leaving net behind.

How to Safely Remove Net Wrap From Bales (Dry &...

A producer-grade guide to removing net wrap safely — tools, dry-bale routine, frozen-bale tactics, and the loader-safety rules behind documented bale-handling fatalities.

Round hay bales stacked in long rows for winter feed at Reeder Creek Ranch in Colorado — the kind of organized outdoor storage that holds dry-matter loss to single digits.

Outdoor Hay Bale Storage Through a Midwest Wint...

Best-practice outdoor hay storage for Midwest winters — railroad-tie rails, north-south row orientation, hill-grade drainage. The three nearly-free decisions that cut spoilage from 20% to under 5%.

Round hay bales in a snow-covered field at dusk — the conditions where net wrap freezes onto the bottom of the bale and becomes hardest to remove.

How to Remove Frozen Net Wrap from Round Bales:...

Fifteen field-tested methods for removing frozen net wrap from round bales — ranked from cheapest to most automated, drawn from cow-calf operators across North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Corn shocks standing in a Minnesota field after harvest — the same dry stover that gets baled into round cornstalk bales.

Net Wrap for Cornstalk Bales: What Hay-Wrap Buy...

Standard 48"/51"/64"/67" net wrap works fine on cornstalk bales — what changes is wraps-per-bale, density setting, and storage time. The field-tested guide to baling corn stover for bedding or feed.

Round baler at work in an Iowa hay field — the moment net wrap is fed onto a fresh bale.

How to Load Net Wrap Into a Round Baler: 7-Step...

Universal seven-step routine for loading a fresh roll of net wrap into a round baler — works on John Deere, Vermeer, New Holland, Case IH, Krone, Kuhn, McHale, Massey Ferguson...

Round hay bales holding their shape in a field after baling -- the finished bales whose diameter and count drive how much net wrap you use per bale.

How Much Net Wrap Per Bale? Calculator and Guide

By the XES Netting team — bale net-wrap manufacturer · Updated May 31, 2026 · ~4 min read Quick answer: XES recommends 2–2.5 wraps for silage, 2.5–3 for hay, and...