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The lonnnnng sloooow hay harvest

Bruce from Can.

Bruce from Can.

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Location
Woodville, Ontario, Canada
Rough totals, so far i have wrapped 550 hay bales for myself and another 100 for a friend.
225 dry hay bales and still another 150 yet to cut and bale
Rolled up 188 wheat straw bales so far , and looks like perhaps there will be another 100 yet to go
My second cutting is coming along nice , but first cut was so late, maybe another week away yet.
My spring grain is all headed out and filling , but looks like it will not combine till September. This has been a funny year indeed. I have silage corn six feet tall planted June 3rd , and silage corn at 3-4 feet planted June 25th. It will all chop at what ever height it makes in September.
While out on the road yesterday I saw the first corn fields starting to shoot up tassels. As the old saying goes . " there comes a time when all grain is ripe" . The grain might be light , and a poor yield , but it will reach the end of it's growing season , and mature. Shorter days are starting to be noticeable , sun comes up after 6 am , and heads down at 8:40 pm . Sure different from last year!Bruce
 
Wheat harvest will be finished here in a few days, some early second cut is off, corn has pretty well all tassel led a week ago.Mixed grain is a week away. Major wheat field fire at the neighbour's yesterday, lost a car and burned a tire off the buggy, but saved everything else. That's scary. Ben
 
Crops here are all over the map . From Bean crops that are 6 inches high to near two feet. Very little wheat has come off, and some fields need to be burned down with spray, as they are turning green. Glad that I am not a cash cropper this year. Bruce
 
Drove past a field of beans yesterday. Wife exclaimed how good they looked. Then I pointed out that they were basically ground cover and could probably be mowed with a Crapsman riding mower! *lol* Next field had beans and was about 18" high!! Seems the growth is all over the place this year - seemingly no rhyme or reason.

Even a field of sunflowers near town - the "flowers", themselves, looked healthy, yet everything looked sad in the bright sun, as though they, as a collective, were simply tired.

And some other fields turning that light green that nobody wants to see yet.

Been a strange year for sure.
 
Same here too,finished our second cut yesterday some just starting a few guys finished second cut 2 weeks ago. Our corn is in tassel now we were lucky up have it in reasonably early. Very very light hay crops here this summer. Potatoes are really starting to suffer in the dry spell,3/4" rain here in almost 6 weeks now
 
Hey Bruce/Centash, where are you guys located? I'm near Stratford, crops are looking real good over here. Hay is very hard to get off, everyone working on second cut hay and wheat/straw now....wheat yields are excellent from what I hear, and the straw is very heavy also.
 
Long slow harvest for sure. We just finished the first field of 2nd cut today. Yield seemed a little low. 1st cut took forever to get in, couldn't catch more then 3 days of dry weather in a row to save our lives. Almost everyone's corn here is tassled already.
Been really wet this year. Tough to get the hay dry with the amount of moisture in the ground. Got about 1.5" last Friday night and I'm still getting wet knees if I kneel down.
 
I farm roughly 15 miles south east of Lake Simcoe,
as the crow flys. There is some great corn, and
some real poor corn. Wheat started to come off
Sunday, seems decent grain , but straw isn't really
as heavy as most years. I have baled 228 bales of
wheat straw now, as of today, before the rain drove
me off the field around 3:00 pm. Bruce
 
I used about 500 round bales of straw each year for bedding in our tie stall dairy barn. Aswell as for young stock on the other farm. Dairy barn alone will use 8-9 bales of straw each week, to bed 105 stalls. Bruce
 
Finished harvesting about 45 acres of third cutting Bermuda horse hay about two weeks ago and we have had two good rains since then with over 4 inches today. Leaving on a trip out west Saturday for about 25 days and the fourth cutting should be plenty mature when we get back, probably a week late but I'm just planning on round baling all of the 4th cutting as the barn is full of small squares. May get a fifth cutting if weather is perfect and frost is on time or late. Been a crazy year for hay in East Texas and we will truly have an oversupply of hay this year. So far all of my hay has been baled and put up dry as the haying windows have been timed fairly convenient to maturity. Wish we could move some of the hay to the extreme drought areas in the US but shipping is prohibitive.
 
(quoted from post at 17:08:33 08/02/17) I used about 500 round bales of straw each year for bedding in our tie stall dairy barn. Aswell as for young stock on the other farm. Dairy barn alone will use 8-9 bales of straw each week, to bed 105 stalls. Bruce
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What does straw sell for in your area, off the field? Around here, it ranges from 2.5c/lb all the way to 4.5c/lb....
 
don't feel like the Lone Ranger Bruce ,,took me nearly 2 weeks to roll up 200 bales my nh 847 gave birth too ,. and i thought i did pretty good,,. still have a lot of 1ST CUt yet to do ,.. lot of lush under story ,. sure wish i coulda got in there before mid June ,. health issues , equipment woes and never ending rain forcasts threw me so far behind i will probably still be baling hay on Thanksgiving Day..
 
Thanks for info. A local BTO (no dairy) sells tons of straw to a mushroom farm. It's a mainstay of his farming operations.
 
I am about 3 miles from Lake Huron, north of Goderich. Most crops look good here,
some late beans hurt by a 6 inch downpour in late June. Winter wheat running about
100 bu/ac, lots of straw, still some guys at first cut, but most dairy guys are on
their 2nd cut. We are still a few heat units shy of normal but catching up. Going to
the International Plowing Match? Ben
 
(quoted from post at 18:40:01 08/02/17) I don't think anyone will even talk to you about straw
for less than.04 per lb. even at .05 for a 500 lb bale
, is only $25.00 The fertilize value has to be about
that much.
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I was talking the price in the row. Baled straw sells for 5.5-7c lb here. We paid 5.25c delivered to our yard last year, sounds like it will be similar this year I think.
 
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