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Being in PA, you probably get similar weather and when it's raining often in hay season, the hay cut with a conditioner will need less dry time. Way back, when I was real young we had an 11 acre field of thick hay grasses, behind our ford tractor dealership, was like orchard grass or similar, with some timothy, over an area that is an aquifier, water table only a few feet down, so it grew well dry weather or not, really thick crop, we used to have a side sickle mounted on a 64 4000 ford, later on had 2 ford mower conditioners, the dry time was much faster using the conditioner. Just going from memory, been a long time, though I often wondered that if you had enough dry time, after cutting with a sickle how much better was the uncrimped hay, if not rained on, or bleached by the sun, so many variables, preferences by location and methods to consider, I think the conditioner would be better, as it dries faster, not bleached by the sun as long to dry, that is if it dries, that field here was really tough to dry hay in sometimes. No hay expert just remembering things we did here. At one time, that's all there was around here, sickle mowers, the old timers would know, they too had to get hay in with what they had then.
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