Forecast Got Me Again

Here in MN a lot of hay hasn't had the first cutting due to rain almost every day since spring, my hay included. Well the forecast looked good on Friday the 13th for dry weather of up to a week. So all the hay around my area went down over the weekend. So of course we got a good shower early Monday morning and was so humid it didn't dry back out. We were supposed to have a clear low humidity day today but it is currently sprinkling. Tomorrow is said to be excessively hot and storms in the late day. Then 50% chance or more, of rain Thursday through Monday....so much for our week of dry spell, hay will be ruined almost for sure, cant win this year so far...
 
Look at the bright side.....

Oh, you can't -- too many rain clouds in the way. *lol*

We were EXTREMELY dry in the Spring, but have had a lot of rain since then. Fortunately not as much as you, and the rivers can keep up in getting the water away. Normally we have (3) 1.5-acre bug zappers around the house just to be able to go outside during the daytime, but has been wonderful this year. Can be outside until about 6pm before you even "might" see a skeeter, but better be inside by 7 or 7:30.

Usually, have to blow out the bug zappers about every 2 to 4 days just to make room for more to get in. Birds and raccoons just LOVE when the zappers are out. ...So does the electric company. *lol*
 
I baled a half a load of pretty wet stuff a couple weeks ago.

I have 4 loads of hay laying, could have raked and baled one last evening but with the 1/4 inch of rain we got a day before I was leaving it all for today.

Well, you can guess how that went. Rain moved in at 10:00 this morning, and the forecast as you say is very wet for days again.

Sigh.

Paul
 
Well I have the second cutting down and should have baled it last evening but I was too tired. There was no rain in the forecast till thursday. So I can bale it this afternoon and it will be crispy dry. NOT! There is a small local rain headed for my farm RIGHT NOW! There is NO other rain in the area. Grrrrrrr. I'm in northwest Iowa.
 
The exact place where those small "popcorn showers" will show up is still hard to predict.
 
I was just on my way out the door to cut grass half an hour ago. The sky opened up and dropped a bunch of soft, nickel- sized hail on us. No damage, but scary. unc
 
Sounds exactly like every one (almost) of my 30 years of haymaking in Scotland (now thankfully behind me). I feel your pain! Jim
 
We've got a different problem. Great haying weather here in the Pacific Northwest, less than an inch of rain since May 1. But wife's hay guy is 78 years old, still haying, but she didn't hear from him, so finally called last week. He hurt his hip, using a walker, trying to get stuff fixed, so things have pretty much ground to a halt for him and still no hay for us. Might have to go to Plan B. I think Plan A for next year is to find somebody else to buy from.
 
Here in Missouri we have the opposite problem. The weather here has been hot and dry and many hay fields have yields of less than 50% of normal years and now that the hay is done what is out in the fields are burning up due to lack of rain
 

pretty much the case here in Northern Indiana. some just finished getting 1st cutting in a week or so ago.

had a nice dry spell for 2nd cutting if you were putting up dry hay.

those that used to milk here almost all put 1st cutting in the silo or bag or wrapped as it was just too hard to get it dry in the spring. of course those that milk are getting fewer adn fewer so the market for hayledge is getting smaller.
 
a couple years ago we visited your neighbors to the east (Ireland) and i wondered how they ever managed to get dry hay up. seen a few chopping hay while we were there. of course the 2 weeks we were there the it was sunny and in the low 70s. luckily we got our rental car upgraded and it happened to have AC. my wife actually got sunburned in Ireland during our trip.

i did notice that no one had upright silos over there. of course fewer are using them here now.
 

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