Good Hay Year

Allan in NE

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Cooling down after running 40 acres.

Allan
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You need a 200000$ tractor and another god only knows how much bat wing mower and you could knock that 40 out in an hour!!! LOL
 
(quoted from post at 14:07:33 08/01/15) I hear ya,

All the rain ruined my wheat crop, but got lossa hay this year.

Allan
Good deal dairy hay around here will be worth a Gold bar or Two this winter if not now.
 
you are probably the only one that can say that. Still working on 1st cutting pretty much all grass now. I've never seen it where we were working 1st cutting in the 1st week of Aug. Usualy have it done 2nd or3rd week of June. Weather not equiptment has been the problem. Hope things stay good for you,
 
Just finished my first cutting a week ago, like everyone else not enough of a break between rains to get it cured. But I also managed to get the second cutting on one small field (about 1.8 acres) last weekend. 110 square bales, and it already has a good jump for the third cutting.
 
That is pretty good. You must have some very smooth hay fields. I could not drive 9 mph even with an empty tractor and wagon on most hay fields here. I'm happy if I can do 3 mph cutting 9 feet bouncing over mole hills.
 
Same here. I had ONE load of wheat that brought any money. I mowed hay yesterday. I'm not sure why - I haven't fed ANY of last year's. I have been using those bales to start brush piles. Seems like a waste, but if I don't mow it I just have roughage next year.
 
(quoted from post at 05:58:32 08/01/15) You need a 200000$ tractor and another god only knows how much bat wing mower and you could knock that 40 out in an hour!!! LOL

At the farm where I hung out as a kid they mow thirty feet wide now. After a few hours they follow with a double Vee rake that combines three of the thirty foot swaths into one big one. If the mower gets ahead of the big NH chopper, they have a second chopper to bring out.
 
I just raked another 20 acres. Gonna bale it this afternoon if everything goes alright. That makes 75 acres this week. Yield is halfway decent. We'll need rain though to get a good third.
 
It has been a great year for grass, poor for alfalfa, and almost impossible to bale due to frequent rains.
 
Worst hay yield UP here that I can remember. Not sure if it was was our late frost/freeze in early June or what but I'm almost done with our 1st and only cutting and I'm running at less than 50% of our usual yield. Many fields I shouldn't have even cut because the fuel burned/$$$$ to make the hay would have been better spent buying hay.

I usually am able to sell some hay to offset the cost of the hay I feed to the cattle. This year I will probably have to buy some hay for the winter.....
 
I do like those NH SP Haybines®. Kinda picture myself piloting a 2450 with a 14' header in good alfalfie someday. 9 mph huh? Making good time. They can keep their Discbines®.
 

Those are some nice pictures. The hay is a little skimpy :lol: just kidding, I bet the quality is a lot better than mine this year. I've made more per acre this year than I ever have but the quality is fair at best. I cut 15 acres friday that will probably make 60 rolls or more but I didn't get it sprayed and it has a lot of weeds. I hope to get it baled Monday. If I cut 9mph on my fields I would be baling mower and tractor parts. About 6 mph is as fast as this old body can take.
 
9 mph, your sickle must rev'ed up in that machine. But again mine is a pull type haybine.
 

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