It may be the best....

Dave H (MI) · Sep 24, 2014

...hay weather we have seen all year! AFTER I get most all of it done. I went down this week and cut a little five acre patch just for the fun of it. We were a few bales short anyway so why not? Nice to do it just once this year without a rain shower breathing down my neck. Bale the last of it and then I have to put the old tractor away for the year and switch to the newer stuff for the bigger jobs. Maybe I'll keep the old girl out and take some fall color rides around the neighborhood.

Nebraska Cowman · Sep 24, 2014

I cut 20 acres or so of alfalfa today. Pretty short crop but it almost never rains here this time of year.

keh · Sep 24, 2014

Light rain in Western SC. Not enough to do any good, just enough to interfere with hay cutting. 60 degrees here.

KEH

rrlund · Sep 24, 2014

I moved 112 round bales off the fields yesterday while I was waiting for parts. The stuff I rolled Saturday was kinda heavy,but I don't think I've ever baled anything that those Angus wouldn't eat eventually.

Mike(NEOhio) · Sep 24, 2014

Just saw our forecast. Sun and mid 70s through next Wed. Time to finish my second cutting.

crooked rows · Sep 24, 2014

Mowed the last of the third cutting Monday.Almost pure alfalfa so it needs this nice weather to dry down.

David G · Sep 24, 2014

Put down the second half of my hay last night, plan to bale Sunday.

rankrank1 · Sep 24, 2014

Lot of hay cut to be baled in Soutwest Ohio too.

I cut mine last Tuesday night and baled this past Saturday afternoon. Was nice hay weather but cooler as compared to this week. It was more breezey/windy last week so the hay still dried well for me.

I certainly appreciated working in the mellow weather.

Dave H (MI) · Sep 24, 2014

I've heard beef critters aren't fussy. Can't say as I know first hand. Horses aren't all that fussy but the folks what own them can be a PITA. Goats are the worst...believe it or not.

onefarmer · Sep 24, 2014

Dave we haven't had hay weather, like this, since the 10 days during wheat harvest. I put down 5 acres yesterday and will get it up soon as it's dry. Probably the last for this year.

Then we get to worry about getting the beans and corn out.

Dr. Walt · Sep 25, 2014

Dave:

"Goats are the worst..."

You got that right. My pet "Bambi" goat won't touch a raw carrot, but if you cook it, that carrot disappears in a heartbeat. She also won't touch a raw potato, but loves mashed potatoes with brown gravy, and barbecue flavored potato chips. LOL!

Doc :>)

Dr. Walt · Sep 25, 2014

KEH:

Be grateful for the rain. It was 94 degrees here yesterday & drier than a popcorn fart.

Doc

W_B · Sep 25, 2014

(quoted from post at 03:26:15 09/25/14) I've heard beef critters aren't fussy. Can't say as I know first hand. Horses aren't all that fussy but the folks what own them can be a PITA. Goats are the worst...believe it or not.

Llamas can be a little fussy too. With those prehensile lips they can pick out the soft, leafy stuff from the course and waste a lot. If they get hungry enough they will eat the stems too. They love evergreeens and poison ivy, at our other place half of their enclosure was wooded. They stripped every ounce of poison ivy that was there including the big stems running up the trees. Had to keep them from the pines however (any tree for that matter), they could strip the green off up to 6 1/2 ft. off the ground.

1130Leo · Sep 25, 2014

I have the last 25 acres down, will be baling friday, saturday and sunday, and trying to pack it all in the barn. I should have enough squares to get thru, finally. Finally having summer weather, now that it is officially fall. The way it was going I really did not think I was going to get any good hay in the barn. Horses may not be that picky, but if it's dusty, they will get sick, that is why so many of us who have horses are picky. I still need to reduce my herd, way too many horses, but at least now I will have enough feed to get them thru the winter. Here's to hoping we do not have as harsh of a winter as last year. Seeing two different forecasts for this year, one the farmers almanac saying we are going to get frigid and buried in snow again, and another saying it will be a milder, less snow winter. I hope the Almanac is wrong... Obviouisly, I am one that would prefer "global warming"..

Good luck to everyone that has hay down that it all gets perfectly dry and in the barn!!

Dave H (MI) · Sep 25, 2014

Lot is going to depend on what you mean by dusty hay. Cut the strings on any bale late in the afternoon on a sunny day and you will be able to see the dust fly. No such thing as hay that is dust free. Around here when we say dusty we mean that it heated. Baled too wet or too green, but only just. May be discolored INSIDE and may have some flakes that are dense or stuck together. The dust from those bales contains mold spores. It may or may not make a horse ill. From my perspective it is nasty stuff and I don't sell it. Reputation is everything in the small squares biz.

Dave H (MI) · Sep 25, 2014

Sometimes I think a goat would rather starve than pick up a mouthful of hay it dropped on the ground.

GordoSD · Sep 25, 2014

More coming your way. It was 85 here yesterday afternoon.

Bret4207 · Sep 26, 2014

Supposed to be good through the first weekend of October here. At least I can get the hay cut. Last year there were fields that never saw a tractor!

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