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You need to get it out of the way so the next cutting is good. So, the short answer is, make it when you can. Don"t fool around with double cuttings, extra wheels, etc. Type of hay, local market, & all that will "decide" if you have marketable hay. You can sell junk to landscapers for $.75 - 1 a bale, up to $5-6 a bale in short years for premium quality to rich horse folks. If you are looking to make money at this, determine your market before you grow anything, find who will buy from you, plan for all grades of hay (every year you will get a few premo bales and a few total junk bales) & find buyers for those types of hay, & set up your buisness plan. If this is for fun because you have a few extra acres, then keep having fun, & make your hay, you"ll find someone to take it off your hands for some price. There is _no_ benifit to not making the hay, even if it is over-ripe by now. Around here most of us are 1/2 way through alfalfa cutting due to all the rain. We are supposed to be making 1st cutting last week of May/into 1st week of June, then cut every 30 days for premo alfalfa, 4 cuttings. We are 20 days behind, predicting rain 4 of the next 6 days. We make the hay as best we can, got to get rid of it sometime to make room for the next cutting. --->Paul
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