Why We Sell Forage by Weighed Kilogram, Not by Bale

When you buy forage "by the bale," you're actually buying an unknown. Two bales that look identical can differ by tens of kilograms. That's why at PANONIA GOLD every delivery and every pickup goes across the scale, and you pay for exactly the kilograms received. It's a difference that sounds technical but shows up directly in your pocket.

The bale is the packaging, not the goods

Your animals don't eat bales — they eat kilograms of forage. The bale is just the form in which we package and transport the goods. And that form doesn't have a fixed weight:

• Lucerne hay: bales of 300–400 kg.
• Haylage (Alfalfa-Gold): 350–500 kg.
• Spring-Matrix: 450–550 kg.
• Corn silage: 750–1,000 kg per bale.

The difference comes from forage type, moisture, and how densely it was pressed. A silage bale weighs two to three times a hay bale — even though both are "a bale."

What this means for you

If you pay "per bale," you pay an assumed average — and the average can work against you without your knowing. If you pay per weighed kilogram:

• You get exactly the quantity you're paying for.
• You can verify on the spot, at the scale — nothing rests on estimates.
• You compare price correctly between suppliers, because you reference everything to the kilogram, not to a "bale" of unknown weight.

How it works with us

At loading or delivery, the goods are weighed, and the scale ticket is the document the payment is based on. There's no "approximately" — there's the figure on the scale. It's a system where customer and producer look at the same verifiable number, with no room for interpretation.

It's also why we insist on transparency: when you sell by the scale, there's nowhere to hide anything. That's exactly what we want.

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