Hay weather this year, here's how it looks

Bruce from Can. · Jun 23, 2015

Cut this hay Sunday afternoon, after the Saturday
night rain dried off. Baled it Monday evenig, before
the "gully washer" came. Trucking it home and
wrapping it thisorning. Had to take time to grade the
driveway, to fill in the wash-outs before I could start.
15 acres out of 25 on this field cut and baled. 84
bales, Four foot six by four foot. Have made 170 so
far this year, good crop, but poor weather makes for
slow going. Just look at the sky in the picture, I have
been rained on twice this morning. Bruce

bison · Jun 23, 2015

Hay weather and how it looks up here this year.
We're having a h"ll of a drought,...there is no hay worth cutting :shock:

David G · Jun 23, 2015

We have hardly had 3 dry days in a row all year.

Bruce from Can. · Jun 23, 2015

Bring a truck Bison!

Part Time Pete · Jun 23, 2015

Still not much weather for dry hay yet in Central NY
There's been a good day here and there, guys are getting their haylage and baleage in though
Gonna really have to move when ever it does clear up
Pete

rrlund · Jun 23, 2015

Just home for dinner,working on laying down another 23 acres. It's quite grassy. It's sunny and windy today,supposed to be sunny and even warmer tomorrow,so I think I can get it baled tomorrow before rain comes back Thursday. Just 22 to cut yet,but it's a new seeding,heavy as heck and needs three or four days to dry. At some point I'll just have to knock it down come what may.
I haven't worked a Sunday yet this year and really don't want to start now as smooth as things are going.

K Effective · Jun 23, 2015

I just got back from raking a couple of acres I cut Saturday, it might have been ready today as is, but was close. Beautiful day down here today, but the radar shows another line of storms coming in from Iowa, probably Wednesday. I go back to work Thursday night, so it might be the weekend before I knock the last 6 acres off. First field I baled this year is nearly ready for second cut. Field of new planting will be close behind, if for no other reason than to hide the weeds growing in there. Who knew no-tilling would stir up so many weed seeds?
Did see another neighbor out today, may approach him about baling an abandoned field on his place just for volume.

bison · Jun 23, 2015

(quoted from post at 08:58:39 06/23/15) Bring a truck Bison!

000 km hauling one way!... gonna be expensive hay me thinks Bruce:shock:
I think it wiser to sell a good bunch of animals.
Gonna have to by the looks of the pastures anyway cause there ain't any regrowth and the grasshoppers are moving in to boot.
Its gonna be a bad year

Donald Lehman · Jun 23, 2015

Don't know of anybody here in NNY that has put up a single dry square bale yet. We have been lucky to get two days without rain in a row. Most of the time we are doing good to get two hours without rain. When they finally do get any dry hay bled, the will be lucky if the crap is 5% protein. Even those chopping and putting up round bales are having a tough time not getting the stuff wet between mowing and chopping/baling. Spent a fair part of today fixing washouts in our driveways, too. Had a real frog choker going for a couple of hours last night.

hd6gtom · Jun 23, 2015

We have a total of 3 bales made so far this year here in south central Iowa.

JayinNY · Jun 23, 2015

Iv made nothing here in eastern NY, how does your hay keep, if baled that soon, but put in wrap? Does it ferment like silage?

jimont · Jun 23, 2015

Bruce. We lucked out here (south of Hamilton). Cut 25ac of red clover Sunday. Raked, baled and wrapped 190 5x4 bales in 3 hrs Monday. My son has 2 friends (brothers) who bale for us and help to load and wrap. My son provides the wrapper (inline) for both to use. Nice having good neighbours!

1948jr · Jun 23, 2015

here in north central ky. we have 220 bales so far. too much rain.

Bruce from Can. · Jun 23, 2015

Yes Jay , it got wrapped. Thank goodness for plastic wrap , or I would have to chop all my hay this year. Maybe we can get some dry hay weather in July.

keh · Jun 23, 2015

Western SC: Wet enough in May to get good growth. Then we had a couple of weeks of not much rain, just enough to keep us out of the hay field. Yesterday I cut hay, this morning I cut hay. Went to bale yesterday's hay this afternoon, got half done and a bearing went out on the Vermeer round baler. Temperature was 95 degrees. After some effort I got the baler hooked to a truck to take to dealer for repair. Thunder and a light dew worth of rain. Going out early tomorrow.

KEH

Texasmark1 · Jun 23, 2015

I don't know how you guys in the Northern parts of the hemisphere make it on hay. It's hard enough down here to get into the field first, ground dry enough for decent curing, getting the crop cut, cured, raked and baled before it gets ruined by the weather.

My hat's off to you guys. Good job under surely trying conditions.

Mark

flying belgian · Jun 24, 2015

So. central Mn. I should have 5000 small squares baled and delivered by now. I have zero. I have 12 acres of alfalfa laying. Should be ready to bale Fri. Should have been cut a month ago so it is all ripe and matted and terrible quality. Don't think my regular customers will want it until they see this is as good as it is going to get this year.

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