A Hay Dryer Engineered for Serious Operations
The AG Hay Drying System from Agri Green is built for commercial hay producers — dairy operations, horse-hay specialists, and large-scale custom hay farms. It's a stationary system designed around a simple principle: take the weather out of haymaking, and produce better hay than sun-curing can on its best day.
Bale at higher moisture, before rain or humidity can damage your cutting. The AG Hay Drying System brings them down to safe storage moisture quickly and uniformly, preserving leaf, color, and protein. The result is consistently higher-grade hay, more cuttings per season, and far less crop lost to weather.
Three models cover operations of different sizes — from the soon-to-launch natural-gas-powered 300E for grid-connected farms, to the diesel-powered 400 and 600 for higher-throughput operations. All three are engineered with fewer moving parts than competing systems and use fuel directly rather than converting it to electricity first — simpler maintenance, lower running costs, and better energy efficiency.
Three Models, Sized to Your Operation
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The Maximizer 300E Launches June 2026
Maximizer 300E
Natural gas heat with three-phase electric fans. One drying chamber with 4-foot internal height, built to handle 4x4x8 bales or 3x4 bales on edge. Launching June 2026.
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Maximizer 400 — Installed outdoors on a working farm
Diesel-powered. Two drying chambers with 4-foot internal height, built to handle 4x4x8 bales or 3x4 bales on edge. Capacity: four 4x4x8 bales or six 3x4 bales.
Maximizer 600
Installed under cover
Diesel-powered. Three drying chambers with 3-foot internal height, sized for 3x4 bales, 3x3 bales, and Baron Bundles. Capacity: six 3x4 bales or nine 3x3 bales.
What's a Rained-On Cutting Actually Costing You?
Most hay producers think of weather damage as a bad year now and then. The numbers tell a different story. Across an average operation, the cumulative cost of weather and field-drying losses adds up every single season - quietly, in three places at once.
Crops You Lose On Outright
A heavy rain on a cutting that's already swathed but not baled means you have received partial damage and it becomes hay you cannot sell as premium grade. Most producers accept this as the cost of doing business - it doesn't have to be.
Quality Penalties on Every Bale
Even in perfect weather, sun-curing damages hay. UV bleaches color. Leaves shatter and fall off with every raking and tedding pass. Nutrients oxidize while the cutting sits in the field for days. Hay baled too damp molds in storage. Either way, you lose the price premium that high-grade dairy and horse hay commands. Bale-and-dry is the only approach that consistently preserves color, leaf and protein - across a full season, the gap between premium and standard grade is significant.
Cuttings You Never Take
In a wet year, you skip cuttings because there's no clear weather window to dry them. That is lost inventory you you can't sell, lost regrowth potential, and overly mature crops that you have harvested.
Each of these losses can feel small in isolation. Together, across a full season, they're often a meaningful share of what you should be earning form your operation.
Why European Farmers Stopped Field-Drying
In much of Europe - particularly the Alpine dairy regions, the UK, and northern climates similar to parts of North America - commercial hay drying has been standard practice for decades. Farmers there don't gamble premium hay on the weather. They bale at 20-30% moisture, get the crop off the field before damage, and finish drying in a controlled environment.
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The result is consistent, high-protein, mold-free hay regardless of the season - and the milk and cheese quality that comes from it. It's the same approach behind the Alpine cheeses Europe is famous for, and behind the dairy operations that command premium prices,
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In North America, the practice is just starting to catch on. The producers leading the shift are the ones who can no longer afford to lose cuttings to increasingly unpredictable weather - and who have realized that controlling drying isn't a European luxury, it's a way to protect every bale they harvest.
Plan Your Drying System for the Season Ahead
Whether your season is underway or just getting started, now is the time to spec your system and get on the build schedule. Grid-connected operations should look at the new 300E. Diesel-powered operations run the 400 or 600. Either way, the conversation starts here.
Agri Green Enterprises Inc.
5826 Smedley Rd.,
Vanderhoof, British Columbia
Canada
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