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Anonymous-0

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Hey folks,
Assuming you had an acre of ground with a pasture mix seed, 1 curt a year and no fertilizer other than manure. How many 4x5 round bails could you expect (700+/- a couple pounds)?

Gotta do some monkey math and rent some more property to avoid tearing down a couple leanto's.

Thanks, Dave
 
Way to many variables to really say for sure. Of course I also do not know how many acres I even bales to to guess-to-mate would be hard also. I do know if I where to guess as to how many I got last year it would be 5 or so but that is also a 200lbs bale
 
Hard to say; things are so different in different places. I usta figure on about 4 bales (5 x 6.....1200-1500 lb) per acre; June cutting...... fescue/orchard grass/clovers. Pastures/hay tend to be LUSH here in the Spring.
 
(quoted from post at 13:04:52 03/16/10) Between 1 and 5. Nice and vague, just like the description and the number of variables.

Jay
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Nothing is in stone......If you went out to an acre field that wasn't maintained but had a good growth (waist high) of pasture mix, what do you think you could get. If it's too complicated to answer, just pass it by.


Dave
 
Here if you lime and manure, you get about 4000 lbs of hay per
acre if you do one late cut. About 5000 lbs an acre total of better
quality hay if two cuts.

We have a lot of rain fall. Can't get the second cut many years due
to rain pushing first cut back or preventing second cut.
 
(quoted from post at 16:14:42 03/16/10)
(quoted from post at 13:04:52 03/16/10) Between 1 and 5. Nice and vague, just like the description and the number of variables.

Jay
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Nothing is in stone......If you went out to an acre field that wasn't maintained but had a good growth (waist high) of pasture mix, what do you think you could get. If it's too complicated to answer, just pass it by.


Dave
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t only 700# each, 3 to 4 is a fair guestimate where I live, but you are in a much colder climate & undoubtedly different grasses & weeds, so????????
 
That's why many of us are passing it by. ;)

Rainfall, type of hay, sandy or peat ground, climate & location.... Cut early & 2x for high-quality hay less bales per cutting; Cut late and once to get more bales but poorer quality.... Your neighbors could tell you, anything from this far away without knowing more about it, we just can't give you a meaningfull number.

Even then, knowing my ground & my fertility & my hay; It could be one to five bales, depends on the weather & rainfall. Any guess you get is an average, but doesn't mean you'll get that in any one year.

So, I'll just move on by & not answer. :)

--->Paul
 

DAVE:
before we put down nitrogen 2 years ago on a short
6 acres we would get 5 to 5-1/2 big bails of 1 ton
bails for 1 cutting and that was just plain old
pasture mix. We all so figured 20 to 25 small
squair bails per big round bail, witch would be 100
small squair bails for 5 big bails. Did I go to far.Dose this help ya.
JR.FRYE
 
(quoted from post at 14:19:37 03/16/10)
DAVE:
before we put down nitrogen 2 years ago on a short
6 acres we would get 5 to 5-1/2 big bails of 1 ton
bails for 1 cutting and that was just plain old
pasture mix. We all so figured 20 to 25 small
squair bails per big round bail, witch would be 100
small squair bails for 5 big bails. Did I go to far.Dose this help ya.
JR.FRYE
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I think that makes sense.

Thing is, we have to show ourselves as a farmer because of two lean to's I built on property we own. Long story and a real pisser, but we need to show that we make our own feed and don't buy. It's all a paper shuffel but necessary for us to keep the horses as we do.


Dave
 
Dave,
If the lot is truly a one acre lot and surround by woods, count on about 1900-2200kgs without any fert, if the soil is good, horse manure, no sheep that gaze it in spring and no Urea. Plus if you have to maneuver around in that single lot you are lucky if you can get it all picked up efficiently. I had a lot about that size I could not apply anything to and that is what I got from it. That was South of you and a little colder.

I would never spread horse manure as it is not cost effective compared to cow. Urea (Stickstoff) is cheap in Germany, and can be had cheaper sometimes then in the USA. If you buy it in bulk from BayWa, they will loan you a three point spreader.

I am somewhat aware of what you are going through. I am almost 80% sure that if you store bulk food for the animals year round it will allow you to comply as well. I think you are being hogwashed on the having to produce. I use to store grain in the neighbors attic year round for free just so he could comply. Something you might need to double check.
 

My GOOD FRIEND:
I now what you are talkig about, I went threw that with madison, Some how SHOW that you sell some hay and that is a commodity,and we both know what means. Now you make your paper shuffel,If they dont ask if you sell it dont tell: OOOOOOPS
did I say that.
GOOD LUCK:
JR.FRYE
 
We get 2T per acre with 30 Lbs of nitrogen fertilizer in one cutting IF we get adequate Spring moisture and normal temperatures. We normally cut at the end of june or early July when the grass is just about ready to bloom.
 
We get 2T per acre with 30 Lbs of nitrogen fertilizer in one cutting IF we get adequate Spring moisture and normal temperatures. We normally cut at the end of june or early July when the grass is just about ready to bloom.
 
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