Re: Rake and Bale at the same time

Posted by txgrn on June 12, 2005 at 07:05:39 from (209.151.118.135):

In Reply to: Re: Rake and Bale at the same time posted by Not For Me on June 11, 2005 at 15:57:40:

Take me for example. Friday afternoon I cut a haygrazer field. Grass was about 5' tall and made a full windrow on each pass.

The grass had so much water in the stems that you could just look at it clumped in the cutter and see the water all over it.

The top part has cured very well but the bottom is in contact with the ground (moisture there) and is "mulched" by the top cover, both of which help it contain it's moisture.

I am going out this afternoon to roll it over and may do that one or more times before it's ready to bale, which may be 5 or 6 days from cutting.

Lots of new ideas are out there to make things better for us (supposedly) but need to be evaluated thoroughly....case in point: no-till farming. I have a problem with weeds if some sort of weed control isn't exercised annually and sometimes semiannually. Gotta spray or plow and spraying is a real bear where I am.

Mark

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