Posted by Destroked 450 on July 16, 2018 at 08:08:43 from (173.242.142.14):
In Reply to: cost to make hay posted by cjunrau on July 15, 2018 at 07:09:58:
I'm a small guy and don't rent much hay ground, on the ones I do tend if it's simply cut and bale without investing my money into the land I'll do that on a word of mouth or hand shake agreement.
If I have to clean up any of the land, apply seed, lime, or fertilizer it's a 5 year written agreement or I'm out.
I'm not going to invest time and money building up someone else's land just for them to rent it to another person next year.
My tractors are 40-72 hp diesels so fuel consumption isn't bad.
My 52 hp tractor burns around 1/2 gallon per acre pulling a 9 ft disc mower, cuts 4-5 acres per hour depending on how rough the field is.
Tedding and raking both equals around the same 1/2 gallon per, 72 hp tractor with baler making 4x5 bales burns around 1 gallon per acre. I bale around 4.5- 5.5 mph, hays fairly thick and I like to feed it at a slower pace, tractor starts running out of power if I go much faster.
Most of our hay is fescue, orchard grass, clover mix, on poor ground we'll make 2 1/2- 3 bales per acre, average ground 4-5 bales per. I apply chicken litter to my farm keeping the nutrients in the upper scale on soil test charts, that ground will make 6-8 bales per acre on average years.
Baled a 5 acre field last week, late 1st cutting with lots of growth, 42 4x5 rolls from 5 acres = 8.4 bales per acre.
This year with cold wet spring weather early 1st cuttings only averaged 3-4 bales per acre on good ground.
Later 1st cuttings had lower quality but made more bales.
One field made more bales on the 2nd cutting than on 1st cutting, 1st time I've ever had that happen.
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