Trying some thing different

Seeing that i got my haybine fixed, i cut hay
yesterday it will all be sold for mulch hay,,anyway
for 30 years i brush hog the horse pasture, took me
over 8 hours, this year i took the fence down
enough to get equipment in there and am gonna
bale it, i tedded it this pm, hope to bale it saturday.

Is that a Deutz tedder behind the Ford? Haven't seen one of those in a while. The Ford looks to be a 20 series compact diesel. Might get one, one of these days. Wanted a 1720 when they were new. Were a bit pricey at the time. Wasn't surprised to see they've kept most of their value through the years. There sure were a lot of them crawling all over the land back when they debuted. Reminded me of the proliferation of the 8Ns.

Mike

Yes a duetz farr tedder and ford 1720 tractor, only 1597 hours on the tractor, its a 1994 i bought in 1998 with 400 hours on it, been a great little tractor!

Get it over here my way and you can get $12.00 per bale for it.

That would be nice! but i dont have a way to move
that much hay over your way! I have a building
contractor here that buys it right off the wagons.

(quoted from post at 17:06:56 08/20/20) Seeing that i got my haybine fixed, i cut hay
yesterday it will all be sold for mulch hay,,anyway
for 30 years i brush hog the horse pasture, took me
over 8 hours, this year i took the fence down
enough to get equipment in there and am gonna
bale it, i tedded it this pm, hope to bale it saturday.
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We bale just about all of our pasture, at one point or another.

Here in NY State, I think of pasture and hayfields in thirds; because the grass grows three times faster in May/June than it does in the fall.

So, if your pasture is big enough for fall grazing; then ...

Graze 1/3 of it in May and June. Take first cut off of 2/3 of it in June.

In July, it's usually too hot to graze well during the day, so let the cows have shade and feed them some of that first cut during the day. Let them graze at night. You'll need about 2/3 of your pasture to do that. Take second cut off of the last 1/3 somewhere around August 1st.

Then, graze all of it rotationally for the rest of the summer and fall.

We rotate which 1/3 we graze first and/or cut first; so that all of the pasture gets cut early and twice every few years; which keeps weeds to a minimum.

This way, our pastures stay clean of weeds and invasive stuff, like multiflora rose. We get some hay for winter off of the pasture, and the cows are always grazing the growth stage that they want ... which is about boot high... as opposed to wasting tall grass one day and trying to eat short stuff down to the ground the next.

Good luck. Your pasture will be much better next year for it!

Lastcowboy32 that is a good management plan. We used to take a spring cutting off some pasture then turn the sheep in after it grew back. We needed roughly twice the pasture in late July as we needed in late May. This year we would need ten times more.

We dont have horses anymore, so thats why I
decided to bale it. In the past the horses kept it
mowed!