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Old cut hay laying in fiel

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Will

07-13-2004 09:57:42




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I have a small (2 acre) field one of my neighbors cut, then he never got around to bailing it and the hay got rained on and has been laying in the field for three weeks. Neighbor is now too busy at work to bail my field, or for that matter his own, and I don't have a bailer. I ran over the cut hay with a bushhog yesterday trying to chop it up and I think all I've done is spread it out nicely, the field looks like its mulched with hay now. The only thing I can think of doing now is running the disc over the field to cut the hay up. Its a mixture of timothy, fescue and red clover. Any ideas on how to get the cut hay chopped up small enough so it will decay and let new growth up?

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INCase

07-14-2004 08:44:08




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 Re: Old cut hay laying in fiel in reply to Will, 07-13-2004 09:57:42  
Not having equipment can be a problem... I'd look at getting/borrowing a forage harvester w/hay pickup head and feed it thru that with the spout turned somewhat sideways to cut it up good (or blow it into a wagon or truck to move somewhere else to get rid of) crazy thought... try giving it away...



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txblu

07-14-2004 06:57:44




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 Re: Old cut hay laying in fiel in reply to Will, 07-13-2004 09:57:42  
As I posted recently on this forum, my sudan had rain on it for 3 weeks. I asked everyone I could think of what to do about it and none of the answers were good (to me).

Finally, the rain quit, the field dried up and I revisited the hay. It was not bad at all, smelled ok and didn't look all that bad.

Baled the whole field and would up with a nice crop of bales. It yielded about 2 tons per acre, so there was a lot of forage to get out of the way of the next cutting and the crop owners were tickled to have not lost the cutting (I was custom baling).

As far as baling after bush hogging, my horse hay is cut with my bush hog (sold my .....sickle bar pain in the twat). Don't have to tedder and it is chopped up fine which cures quickly and digests very well in the animal (one time thru vs cows 3 times thru) and customers love it. There is a little loss in harvesting, but for the most part it rakes and square bales nicely.

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Del

07-13-2004 17:28:57




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 Re: Old cut hay laying in fiel in reply to Will, 07-13-2004 09:57:42  
Depending on how heavy the windrows are and the type of stand present I've just left it to rot. I've tried the old bush hog, tried going over it with the hay tedder, When you figure the extra trip over the field I'm not sure you gain much. Unless your hay ground is really rich or you apply a lot of fertilizer the hay will be much heavier next year where the windrows left.



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JMS/MN

07-13-2004 12:46:10




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 Re: Old cut hay laying in fiel in reply to Will, 07-13-2004 09:57:42  
Before going in with a disc, I'd run the bushhog once or twice more, and that should take care of the problem. As long as each trip cuts and spreads it, you are gaining.



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rlee6

07-13-2004 15:51:41




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 Re: Re: Old cut hay laying in fiel in reply to JMS/MN, 07-13-2004 12:46:10  
Is this (cut hay not getting baled) a common problem among those who rely on others for baling? Would it be better to have some basic, used, inexpensive baling equipment just for backup?



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Dick Davis

07-14-2004 03:24:27




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 Re: Re: Re: Old cut hay laying in fiel in reply to rlee6, 07-13-2004 15:51:41  
The other side of the problem is when hay becomes junk and it's not worth the expense of runing it through a machine and if you do bale it what do you do with the product? If it is heavy at all and lays in the field it will kill out a good stand of hay. I think a forage chopper to blow it back on the field is the bewst solution, anybody got a feild ready chopper for sale cheap? My nickel Dick Davis

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