September 2004

Hay Goes Under Cover

Bags for covering hay bales are designed more for SUVs than they are for the barn.

At $14.95, the Professional’s Choice carrier easily earned Best Buy in the hay-flake holders.

Hay bales have gone yuppie.

If you never leave home with your horses, or if you carry a lot of hay when you travel, you have no need for one of the latest types of horse products: bags for covering hay bales. These bags have emerged along with the growing popularity of SUVs brawny enough to pull a two-horse trailer but that need to stay clean enough to also serve as the family station wagon.

The bags are fine for moving a bale of hay and keeping the surroundings for that hay orderly. When you need more than one bale of hay for your trip, or when there’s already a pad of…