People making hay in Southern Pa. Yesterday

draftx

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A friend was in the Lancaster Pa. area and said people were everywhere baling first crop Alfalfa small square bales.
 
I would be making hay here too if the weather would cooperate. But about every 3rd day we have rain so no point in mowing right now. We're in S.E. Ohio
 
I suppose I should go check the bloom in the alfalpha field. Thunderstorms predicted Mon-Tues-Wed so guess it does not matter I won't be cutting anything for a few days anyhow. gobble
 
yeah, I live in Northern MD not far south of the PA line and some people got the itch and baled last week, saw some fields with nice windrows getting rained on. Jeez, I will be waiting for a nice long high pressure zone to get here someday before I ruin the nice hay crops we'll get after all the rain. Been raining almost every day for about 3 weeks.
 
I am in Central Va. Out of the last 19 days , we got rain on 17 days. Before that we had bone dry and the hay was sparse. Now its past its prime, but I will wait until the sun gets strong and the ground gets dry. Always hope for low humidity .
 
What is the most common baling procedure in that area? Drop bales on ground for pickup? Manually or machine? Trail wagon behind baler for direct loading? Kicker?
 
Good grief!! I'm in central NY-Mokawn Valley reigon. Everyone here is tring to get the seedings, corn and beans in. The leaves on the trees ar just starting to pop. The only thing in the hay fields is Dandilions.
Loren
 
Most of hay in our area is baled in big round bales. But we bale some better hay in small squares. Wire tie. Drop them on ground collect them into 10. Then load and unload with a loader.
 
Hopefully we can start to cut Monday or Tuesday. Trouble is the weather man can never make up his mind what the weather will do. Look at 4 forecast, all different, and they change each hour!
 
Back in the olden days, about 30 years ago, most in that area used kickers and trailed the wagon. There were a few that hand loaded the wagons. My dad was one and I still do the thousand or so I use now the same way. No longer in that area though.
 
I see the Amish put up square bales that have to be made damp. I assume they wrap them or something. All I know is my alfalfa does not dry that fast. Only hay I saw cut was ryelage that got wrapped.
 
Quite a few acres here are on the ground the last few days...intended for haylage. Hr NW of MPLS.
 
My neighbors are baling baleage , chopping rye . I just got a wet piece fitted out for oats with timothy , clover seeding under it and now it rains.
 
They throw it into a chopper and blow it in a silo . I have worked for a guy who put tough hay into a mow he said it make silage it's odd that tough hay will not burn but rained on will.
 
We had snow last weekend and our grass is just starting to grow, fields are green and about 2" tall now. Another 4 or 5 weeks and it will be getting to hay time.
 

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