Posted by rrlund on June 26, 2021 at 06:59:16 from (69.36.63.121):
I've been thinking about that 24 acres of hay that's laying out there. It's not raked. It's about a 6 year old seeding. Still a fair amount of alfalfa, but it's getting real heavy with orchard grass. I cut it Tuesday. It's had 4 inches of rain on it so far and looks like it'll lay there until after the Fourth of July at the earliest.
We'll see what happens, but I'm thinking about just forgetting about it. Leave it for a month then cut the second cutting with that stuff in it. I know from experience, those Angus cows will eat anything I put in front of them. My discbine will slash through anything, so that won't be a problem. I'm thinking that if the cows will eat crap that's laid for two weeks in the rain, they'll eat it better if it has good green second cutting mixed in a few weeks later.
What got me thinking about it was, a few years ago, I cut the second cutting in the same field kind of late because we started getting too much rain when it should have been cut. In fact, it was so wet, I couldn't even get all the way down on one low end of the field. After I cut it, it got rained on again for a week. It was late August, almost Labor Day in fact before I could rake and bale it. The third cutting was coming up through it. I remember thinking at that time that if had been earlier in the year, I would have left it and cut it again and mixed the second and third, but it would have been mid September and I was afraid I would get it dry then either.
I don't know. We'll see how long it takes for the rain to stop and how it looks then.
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