#90861
2025 Barley Hay
Good consistant crop was cut and baled, raked once and baled at optimum time. Good colour, nice smell and consistant weight. Shed has good water drainage, gravel frontage and weighbridge on site. Plenty of room for b-double or road trains
Seller Information:
Summary
Visual grade: B
Ad Type
For Sale
Category
Hay & Fodder
Commodity
Hay
Dominant Species
Barley
Sold By The
tonne
Variety
Spartacus
Storage Status / Stage
Shedded
Season
25/26
$/kg C.P. (ex-farm)
2.94
¢/MJ M.E. (ex-farm)
3.06
Protein (%)
11.4
ME (MJ / kg)
10.95
Moisture (%)
10.4
Visual Grade
B
Bale / Package Size
Lge Sq 8x4x3
Units
805.92 tonnes
Bale / Package Weight
730 kg
Documents
Visual
Good consistant crop was cut and baled, raked once and baled at optimum time. Good colour, nice smell and consistant weight. Shed has good water drainage, gravel frontage and weighbridge on site. Plenty of room for b-double or road trains
Crop
Type / Species
Barley
Variety
Spartacus
Irrigated
No
Volume
Quantity
1104
Bale / Package Weight
730 kg
Volume in Tonnes
805.92
Packaging
Broken Strings
<10%
Bale / Package Size
Lge Sq 8x4x3
Wrap Type
8 - String
Material Consistency
Very even <5% variation in material
Organic/GMO
Organic?
No
Storage
Storage Comment
Gravel frontage, clean concrete floors
Storage Status / Stage
Shedded
Storage Surface
Concrete / Bitumen
Rodent
Mice/Rats
None Observed
Moisture
Moisture High (%)
13.5
Moisture Comment
Not much variance in moisture readings
Moisture Low (%)
9.3
Number of Tests
12
# Tests >18%
0
Weeds
Weed Amount
Nil - 1%
Weeds Comments
Clean paddock, low percentage of weeds
Foreign Material
Summarise foreign material in core sample or bale?
Minor dust & straw
Foreign Material Comments
Partial wheat straw from last season
Cutting & Curing
How Long Cured (days)
20
Rainfall damage
Water marking leaf & stems
Weather while Curing
Rainfall >10mm & < 25mm
How Cut
Mower Conditioner
Maturity When Cut
Heads formed, no milky dough seed evident
Raked Times
1
Comment
Couple of showers, less then 10mm of rain, other then that ideal conditions
Steamed at baling?
No
Harvesting
Harvest Date
02-Nov-2025
Baling to Storage Time
Up to 1 week
Stem
Stem Length Comment
Stem length doesn’t change much, pretty consistant crop
80% Stem Length (cm) Approx
35
Stem Thickness
3-5mm
Was the product chopped?
No
Colour
Colour of Core Samples
CE3 - >50% shades of green, with remainder sun bleached to bright white / golden colour
Colour Comment
Some staining from light rain but over all good green colour
Leaf
Leaf Retention
Normal to soft texture
Leaf Retention comment
Lead stays on the stem pretty well, doesn’t lose much when disturbed
Aroma
Aroma
Normal to sweet hay smell, no dust
Aroma Comment
Normal hay smell, possibly a dusty smell
Inspection
Inspector
Accredited Inspector
Inspection Date
10/11/2025
Inspection Manager
Grower Services
Feed Test
NIR - Feed Test (90861-NIRD-2)
Metabolisable Energy (ME)
10.95
Relative Feed Value
143
Horse Digestible Energy (DE)
11.04
Relative Forage Quality
163
Non-Fibre Carbohydrates (NFC)
38.9
Ethanol Soluble Carbohydrates (ESC)
13.2
% Crude Fat
2.4
Digestible Energy (DE)
12.71
Net Energy Gain (NEg)
3.98
Net Energy Lactation (NEl)
6.49
Net Energy Maintenance (NEm)
6.48
Crude Protein (CP)
11.4
% Available Protein
10.4
Soluble Protein
6
Degradable Protein
9
% ADICP
1
% NDICP
2.5
Soluble Protein % of CP
49
Degradable Protein % of CP
76
Est. Lysine
0.2679
Est. Methionine
0.13224
Neutral Detergent Fibre (NDF)
44.2
Acid Detergent Fibre (ADF)
26.9
aNDFom
42.9
Water Soluble Carbohydrates (WSC)
20.8
% TDN
69
% Starch
8
% Lignin
2.6
% Moisture
10.4
% Dry Matter
89.6
% Ash
5.7
uNDFom 30hr
19.5
uNDFom 120hr
13.6
uNDFom 240hr
11.8
NDFD 24hr % of NDF
40
Potassium (K)
1.37
Calcium (Ca)
0.42
Magnesium (Mg)
0.17
Phosphorus (P)
0.22
Sulfur (S)
0.23
Chloride (Cl)
0.83
Total Fatty Acids
0.72
C18:1 Oleic
0.07
C18:2 Linoleic
0.12
C18:3 Linolenic
0.16
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