cant win

Nice day yesterday , just calling for a slight chance of a stray T-storm today and nothing eles till Tues. so I mowed the first hay of the summer about 3 weeks late . Now I get up about 4 this morning to rain and it has`nt stopped at noon . The creeks were dried up around here this time last yr. , this yr. there`s creeks running through the fields .

where you at? I can't remember where you siad you were from. Greene/Parke County area?

I have not had 3 stright days of dry weather since April, let alone 4 days I need to get it dry... 18 of last 28 days...rain...

I'm in W Laf.

I cut 1/4 and it got rained on twice, I got it dry finally...all stems though...

I am just waiting for the rest next 7 days don't look promising either....

I think non-rained on hay will be at a premium price like last year....

I`m in S.E. IN Franklin co. It`s been this way here all spring . Last yr. I had to start watering cows on the 12th [5 days from now] cause all the streams dried up , this yr. ya cant drive across some of`em !

Same here, woke up this morning to sunny skys, clear radar and no rain forcasted until afternoon. I had 40 acres of corn left to spray, getten very green. So I loaded up sprayer and headed out. I just got one load sprayed and the weather service says big rain storm line two countys over poppen up. Well at least I got two hours before it rained. The label for my grass herbicide says four hours until rainfast. Sure hope it works. I was at the coop yesterday picking up some salt blocks and they had 4000 acres of spray orders sitting on the counter, kinda tence atmosphere in the office. I have 180 acres of hay to cut to, just can't seem to get a break this year. I suppose next it will heat up and dry out like last year.

Aren't you glad you weren't any closer to Greensburg? WXIX showed them on the news, part of downtown flooded even.

Isn't the weather in Indy wonderful? I did the same thing, mowed down about 3 acres of grass hay here in Danville, after watching the local weatherman on channel 13 show the "future cast" and the rain going north of me and with the "scattered" chance of storms predicted I gambled.. and lost.

It monsooned if you ask me. The weather forecast was way off in my opinion. I blew that 3 acres I'm sure. I'm out of hay so I'm sorta forced into cutting and since the hay ground is not my property I can't turn my animals loose on it. I do have my own pasture, but I can let them on to graze just yet (reseeded with oats/pasture mix. Not mature enough)

I just hate to waste it. I have no doubts now that it'll rain all this and next week and I won't get the hay that is down dry enough to bale before it browns out to nothing. At least I have other acreage that I can cut (it's all gone to seed now) even if its down on the nutrition factor.

How long have you guys let hay lay in the field before its been spoiled to the point its not worth the trouble?

If I just owned a tedder... guess that needs to be on my list.

Good luck to the rest of you central Indiana hay farmers.