Posted by Bill VA on September 21, 2015 at 13:57:49 from (76.3.243.86):
In our little hay making effort, we are doing about 12-13 acres. Probably add 7 more for a spring planting of teff grass with OG or Timothy drilled in next fall. Our current fields we reclaimed from the weeds (the 12-13 acres) over the past few months, based on soil samples, has had lime, fertilizer - killed down via roundup and drilled with timothy hay.
The goal is quality hay and plenty of it.
But what about back in the 50's/early 60's - square balers were more common, access and I gather affordable tractors and equipment displaced older equipment, I suppose by 1950, farming with a horse was pretty much a thing of the past on the family farm. Hay making equipment like my 7 ft MF sickle mower, 7 ft JD rake, MF50 and older tractors like an 8N or Farmall, etc., and balers like the JD 14T or my NH68 - ALL by today's standards were low capacity farming machinery. Farms were also smaller too than by today's BTO's.
What kind of tons per acre of hay would a farmer have shot for back in the day? Just enough to feed the livestock or surplus to sell? 1 ton, 2, 3 - 6 tons per acre? What was considered a high yield back in the early 50's/early 60's?
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