Posted by Bruce from Can. on July 10, 2018 at 03:58:44 from (74.12.73.215):
Did up the first cut at home for my milk cows in haylage chopped into the pit, around the first week of June. Then moved on to wet bales of first cut, have around 300 of those. Now I am making some dry hay. Rolled up 150 one afternoon, and wrapped 100 of them to protect them from weather. Bales up 83 bales yesterday, and hay another 30 acres laying to cure. I still have 65 more acres of hay to cut in first cut, and I don’t need it and the market is a bit soft right now. Got to get the rest of this dry hay done and moved, so I can go back and make the second cut ( rocket fuel ) for the milk cows. Stopping to clear bales off the field takes up time, and I don’t have much storage. Got a regular customer coming to pick up 100 off the field, should help. We are fairly dry this year, but I grow mostly Alfalfa or Red Clover, and our ground is well drained, so stands of hay put down deep roots, and grow well through dry times when grass with its sallow roots needs regular rain. The pictures I took yesterday are in a little triangle field of about 5 acres, cut off from a big field by a drainage ditch. Got 50 bales off this field, and sold them for enough money to take the wife and I on a four day bus tour to Iowa, and Farm Progress show in August. Last year it rained so much , it was hard to get dry hay. Year before was like this, but the market for hay was hot. Hay is a fickle crop to sell.
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