so really we could be loosing 6-8 DMD points, by a 24 hour wilt and tedded twice to get a higher DMD.
My plan for next year, is test the sugars at 10am, if good to go ring the contractor for 6pm, cut 20ac, straight in with the tedder and have it in a bale within 8hrs. Easy peasy if only the weather would play ball. by doing that we could be talking every bale worth €4 extra in energy, if same dm was in the bales. thats huge.
Mine was actually down for 48hrs. was conditioner mown out on the flat, and tedded the following day. God only knows how much energy it lost.