0 a large amount of something such as hay, paper, wool, or cloth that has been tied tightly together --
1 to bail --
3 a large amount of something such as hay (= dry grass), paper, wool, or cloth that has been tied tightly together --
4 a large amount of something such as paper, wool, or cloth that has been tied tightly together: --
Other habitat includes edge of woodland, hedgerow, canal, willows, pond, and hay bales.
Oats would be harvested for grain and the straw baled; a single alfalfa harvest would be taken one month after oat harvest.
Costs of production per bale were on average 37% higher for organic than for conventional cotton.
The increased costs per bale were mainly due to lower yields in the organic system (see below).
They had also to prepare food for them and provide several hundred bales of straw.
Crinkles in clothes taken from bales are preserved, for example, because carefully washed and ironed clothes could equally well have come from a local grave.
The farms in question used their own standard, traditional methods of making and baling the hay.
Since then, the programme has received financial bale-outs and has undergone a series of largely failed reform efforts.
