Rolled up 83 bales today with pics

JD Farmer

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Not even the electric poles stand up straight in this field.

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Hay raked up real well, 20 more bales this year over last year.
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Bales have to be "caught" with the gate if you want them to stay put.
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My son was doing the baling while I raked, this was his only mess up when he tried to park one against the tree.
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All 83 bales made it in the barn by 7pm, just as the showers moved in. Hope you guys enjoyed the pics.
 
Very nice You must be taking soil samples every couple of years? What was the yield in T/A? Will you get just one more cutting?
 
Looks great. Good job not letting them roll out of sight. Ditto on the too wet. Been sitting & waiting for the last 3 weeks and the forecast for the next 7 days is 3-5 inches of rain. My Klein grass is waist high and seeded out and I have 6 custom baling jobs waiting. I guess the good news is there will be lots of hay to roll
 
Nice looking hay. The guy behind me got his first cutting of alfalfa off this last week. He chops the first cutting each year right into trucks. Bales the second and third and chops fourth and fifth again. A local dairy gets it all.

Greg
 

I am surprised that your equipment is not all dented up from barrel rolling down that hill, LOL Some guys on here insist that you should not farm on a slope.
 
You should have seen this ground 5 yrs. ago when my son bought this farm. Run down fields that were mined for decades. Plenty of brome sage and weeds. Usually after first cut comes off I get a chance to spot spray weeds, which has worked very well so far. Takes lots of time but I like to keep "some" red clover in my hay.

So we took soil samples and began liming and fertilizing. Also interceded orchard grass the first spring. We are amazed at the difference, over triple the production.

This same area produced 63 bales last year with a 2 day difference in cutting dates.

This past April I spread about 300# per acre of 9-23-30 fertilizer.

We will get 3 cuttings if the weather permits.
 
Around here we have no choice if we want to farm. My Township I live in is all very hilly ground, most of it has been strip mined. These fields are "above the coal", so all mining was below them.
 
This is the second one I have owned. First one just like this one, we used it long enough it get a little sloppy in all the working pivots. Both I bought new. So yes we like them, can't be beat for drying hay. We can travel about 75-100% faster over a rollabar rake. They never slip side ways on any hill you dare to go on.
Make the nicest looking windrows, and they don't care which way you travel in a field. I can turn around either direction and not miss any hay...or pick it up and turn around on top of the hay....they are fun to use, never roll up a ball of hay unless you cross a previous windrow.
 
That is nice looking hay. I'm jealous for sure. I have about 25 acres of Brome that is ready to cut right now and we have had rain for the last several days and about 4 more days forecasted. I hate to see Brome go too long after it's ready but won't chance laying it down until I at least think the time is right.

You can see by the pics that I am fortunate enough to have flatter land to work with..lol! Thanks a lot for the pictures. Bob
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Hi, Looks like nice hay and a good crop too. Glad
you got it in. I notice a lot of farmers in Wa. cut their
hay even if it's going to rain the next day. Then they
leave it in the field after baling until the next crop is
half way up the bales. I always cringe.
My dad was a stickler for getting the hay in the
same day it was baled. Sometimes the last wagon
loads sat o/night in the barn if it was quite late.
Because we had to milk again about 5 am. Ed Will,
Oliver BC
 
thanks for your post. I was just wondering yesterday what a good number was after the guy at work told me he put up 137.
But he has a tendency to stretch the truth some times. Ha.
 
Hi, Looks like nice hay and a good crop too. Glad
you got it in. I notice a lot of farmers in Wa. cut their
hay even if it's going to rain the next day. Then they
leave it in the field after baling until the next crop is
half way up the bales. I always cringe.
My dad was a stickler for getting the hay in the
same day it was baled. Sometimes the last wagon
loads sat o/night in the barn if it was quite late.
Because we had to milk again about 5 am. Ed Will,
Oliver BC
 
Hi, Looks like nice hay and a good crop too. Glad
you got it in. I notice a lot of farmers in Wa. cut their
hay even if it's going to rain the next day. Then they
leave it in the field after baling until the next crop is
half way up the bales. I always cringe.
My dad was a stickler for getting the hay in the
same day it was baled. Sometimes the last wagon
loads sat o/night in the barn if it was quite late.
Because we had to milk again about 5 am. Ed Will,
Oliver BC
 

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