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Dave H (MI) · Jun 23, 2014

Looks like you are getting hammered over there again! Was looking at extended forecast and this week is the same as it has been...chance of storms most every day. When do you think we are ever going to get hay in? Maybe beginning of July?

rrlund · Jun 23, 2014

All I can do is sit here and shake my head. On AgDay,Mike Hoffman said there are three cutoff lows over the Pacific,Canada and the Atlantic. He sees them breaking down so we get a pattern change. It's just a matter of time. I think we've already given up a cutting on the tail end. I'm just hoping we manage to get 2.
I've got a lot of big projects that need to be done this year,I just don't want to start anything before first cutting is done. I'm afraid I'd get right in the middle of something and have to stop for a few weeks to put up hay.

RayP(MI) · Jun 23, 2014

I was going to get a lot of hay and other stuff done while wife is at the 4-H fair this week. Same as rrlund, am stalemated - forecast has rain almost all week. Very light showers right now, just enough so I don"t want to do outside stuff!

Dave H (MI) · Jun 23, 2014

See, that is what I was looking for but the weather nerds on TV are more concerned about their graphics. I need someone to tell me what is causing the pattern and what is likely to change it. Used to be you could get that information or at least see a map with isobars that told you where the changes were occurring. Every year I seem to go thru this now. I don't have near the hay to move that you have. I can be done in 4-5 days but I haven't seen that since the weekend after memorial day. I am sure we will get two cuttings. I am just getting real anxious about when the first one is coming. I may have to buy hay for the first time in 12 years. Frustrated and...oh joy...it just started again.

onefarmer · Jun 23, 2014

We're all screwed till the weather pattern changes. I could have got some grass hay put up yesterday if I had a tedder. But the bottom was just as green and wet as when I mowed it.

Fergienewbee · Jun 23, 2014

That's what we had this morning. Wife and I planned to pick strawberries but it was drizzling so I let her sleep in. It's let up now so I can get a couple of projects started outside. All this rain sure hells the corn, but not hay. A guy at church sells horse hay. He cuts lots of farms. He said he hasn't cut hay in two weeks.

Larry

rrlund · Jun 23, 2014

I worked for three hours getting eight and a half acres half way dry. There were a few tough spots here and there but it was better than getting it rained on again. The V type wheel rake was pretty much useless in it,but I took the Kuhn gyro out. I raked it double,just touching,then I went back and started over and turned it. I rolled 82 bales. Fairly decent.
One thing surprised the daylights out of me. I had cut 5 rounds before I took those conditioning rolls out of that disc mower. Where I cut with the rolls in,the hay was discolored,had big green wads in it and the ground was soaking wet under it. Where I didn't have them in,the hay had good color,was fairly dry,the ground was even dry underneath it. I baled the stuff last where the rolls were in and in places the belts were still running wet.

Dave H (MI) · Jun 23, 2014

Yup...raining here now too lightly. My entire cutting is sold to regulars. They buy all I can give em...my prices are good and I don't dump moldy hay on em like a lot of guys. They are locals and won't take it if they see it laying out in the rain. Was a time I would mow right before a light rain if necessary and leave it lay flat instead of piling it up. But I got burned one year when a short shower lasted four days. I can use a few dusty bales for erosion control here and there but I don't want too many.

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