Posted by Bill VA on May 13, 2015 at 08:36:59 from (76.3.243.86):
You folks making hay - no one wants their hay rained-on. Storm from fronts come, dump rain for a full day or more and then there are the evening thunderstorms. Weather man says 50% chance of rain, but sometimes it's the lasting rain and other times it's a scattered thunderstorm. The steady rain can give over the course of a day and inch or more, a thunderstorm can dump and inch or more - or sometimes it's a trace and sometimes the thunderstorm just hits all around your fields - but not on them!
I can understand planning around sustained rain events - but how do you plan for cutting and baling hay with potential for thunderstorms?
You can't put off making hay but so long or your crop over ripens and hay quality goes down, you have to avoid soggy hay and not cut when the rain fronts are coming-in, but I'm thinking with a thunderstorm potential, cut away, pray the storms miss or dump little as possible rain - and if you do get a splash of rain, tedder the heck out of the hay to dry it out and bale. Worse case is you get the hay off the field and get-on with the second cut growing sooner than later.
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