Any hay makers on here this morning

Animal · May 15, 2011

Clover is ready to be cut, temp is 50 degrees. overcast this morning slight chance of sprinkles this afternoon, three days of sun and north wind coming but mid sixties for highs, then four days of hard rain so do I go for it this afternoon?

Charlie M · May 15, 2011

Personally I think wind and sun is more important than temperature. If the ground under it is reasonably dry I'd go for it.

kyhayman · May 15, 2011

Similar situation here, only much less chance of rain until 4-5 days out. Wet, wet ground underneath. Im staying at the house. If the ground on the bottom was dry I might risk it, no way cutting on mud though. It always has dried out and gotten right to cut hay, just like when it gets dry it always has rained.

old · May 15, 2011

I don't know animal if your weather has been like mine for the last week I would hold off. In my area the ground is way to wet to lay hay down because the hay would never dry before the next rain is to come in. Plus the last 3 or 4 days the dew has been so heavy it might as well have rained.

paul · May 15, 2011

Clover, that's a tough one to dry too yet. We are 2 weeks from thinking of hay up here, could be 3 as cold as it's been, not much growth so far. We just got put in a light frost advisory for this evening.

Good luck with whichever way you went, that's always such a tough call to make!

--->Paul

Animal · May 15, 2011

::You won't believe this, but we have not had any rain to amount to a hill of beans for about five days, its cold and windy but all the rain you have had has all gone east of us...

GordoSD · May 15, 2011

You got cold coming and your graound is already cold and saturated . Better wait. I doubt we will get our 4 guts of alfalfa this year with the cold wet ground.
Supposed to get a frost tonight.

GordoSD · May 15, 2011

I dunno. The clothes on the line dry in about 20 minutes when it is 85 degrees, and it takes about an hour and a half at 65 degrees.

Charlie M · May 16, 2011

Didn't mean to say temperature wasn't important - just saying if I had to pick two of 3 things. Around here its rare to have sun, breeze, high temp and not have high humidity to go with it.

Animal · May 19, 2011

Got the clover baled just ahead of the rain, I am not real proud of it as it ended up at about thirty percent moisture.....however if the sun would have came out like they were forecasting it would have been perfect. The majority of it was fine, but stems were a little tough!

Tx Jim · May 20, 2011

(quoted from post at 14:23:44 05/19/11) I am not real proud of it as it ended up at about thirty percent moisture....

Rd or sq bales? Are you going to feed it immediately or do you think it will not mold?

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