 At NDSU, we recommend producers remove netwrap before processing and feeding forages to their livestock. Cattle may eat the netwrap if it's not removed. Eating excessive amounts of netwrap can result in livestock illness and deaths. A study NDSU Animal Sciences Department researchers conducted on several hay bale binding materials found that the three types of netwrapping and the biodegradable twine they evaluated had not disappeared 14 days after cattle ate hay with those wrappings. Well the ones that we have found that have bale wrap in them, it's easy to see. It looks like it looks like netting. It looks like mesh netting in the room. And we've had, you know, small chunks, big chunks. It just depends upon, I suppose, you know, if they chop the hay or if they just drop them out there and let them eat off of it. And I think, you know, the number of animals exposed might depend a little bit upon individual animals. So it may just get into more of it than others. Well I think the ones that we've had that have come in here that we think have died from that have quite a mass of that wrap balled up in their rumen. And we think it just shuts down their gastrointestinal system and makes their rumen static. And they just basically don't digest well. And so they look like they're going on feed, they stand off to the side. And so, you know, I think they're obviously looking like they have a bellyache and they have a problem. And so the ones that we've had have bloated up and come in dead. Removing net wrap can be difficult and time consuming, but with bread heifers selling for $3,200 and 500 pound steers selling for $1,500, removing net wrap before processing and feeding forages is worth the effort.