not getting hay done??

MSS3020 · Sep 12, 2016

Weird Hay year for our area. Can not get three days rain free. Its middle of sept and i am usually finishing up on the second grass cutting on my place. I still havent finished the first on couple places.

Whats the latest you've hayed and has there been any years you left a field till next year..

old · Sep 12, 2016

I'm here in Missouri and have my first cutting done but got it doe latter then most years due to rain. I have part of my 2nd cutting done but the weather guessers keep calling for rain about every 3 or so day so not cutting with a forecast like that. I'd like lo get it done before deer season starts on the 15th but that is not going to happen. Since I will not get it done before deer season opens I'd love to figure out how to carry my bow with we that way I might get a shot

rrlund · Sep 12, 2016

I finished some second cutting grass hay in early October one year. Started picking corn the next day. That's awful late in Michigan though. I cut 20 acres of third cutting alfalfa today,have another 22 to knock down tomorrow. There's a 50% chance of rain tomorrow night,then highs around 70 but dry after that. We're about at the final limit for getting alfalfa dry here right now. The days are too cool and short.

When I used to green chop for the cows every day,I'd chop right up until it snowed if I still had hay standing.

GordoSD · Sep 14, 2016

Bow has to be fully unloaded and enclosed in case. LOL

old · Sep 14, 2016

Not for me I have a permitted that lets me hunt from a car/truck/ or tractor as long as it is not moving

paul · Sep 15, 2016

I cut so,e grass hay in a marsh in November a few years back. It freeze dried. Was kind of odd hay, looked green but cattle didn't seem impressed.

Bales 29 bales of alfalfa 2 years ago, cut it when I was combining beans, musta been end of September, left it sit while I combined, it was really cold and very dry but very cloudy. Think it sat 2 weeks. When I raked it it was dry, green, fluffy, no leaf loss. Some of the best alfalfa I've ever made. Was odd weather.

We too are struggling to get hay made. I cut a few balls worth on Sunday, started misting this morning, raining now. Ground was so wet Sunday it hadn't dried out quite yesterday yet.....

Paul

LAA · Sep 15, 2016

All my fields are fenced so if I miss a cutting it is standing hay to turn cows out on.

hayray · Sep 17, 2016

Same problem with too much rain. We had drought all year, low yields on first cut and second basically did not grow until the last month. I have hay getting wet now but I have no choice but to just keep a certain amount down, it is getting late here in Michigan.

rrlund · Sep 17, 2016

I'm done. Finished Thursday. On to chopping corn.

tomstractorsandtoys · Sep 17, 2016

Twenty five years ago I mowed second cut grass hay the end of Nov and raked it up and baled it the first week of Jan. Not sure if I was behind of everyone else or way ahead.LOL It did make some very nice hay that we fed to our feeder calves. If I remember right it even had a little snow on it in Dec. We were farming in MD at that time. Tom

chevytaHOE5674 · Sep 17, 2016

Just knocked down 15 acres of first cutting this afternoon. See what the weather man says tomorrow if I will have enough window to get it dry or if I will have to roll the dice and make baleage out of it.

After that 15 acres is done I still have another 8-10ish acres left of first crop that I need to get off the field somehow...

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