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Donald Lehman

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Jeff mowed the third cutting today. This is the first time we have mowed this year that we were not in mud up to our neck. Seems odd. Nothing fell apart, either. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............................Hopefully tomorrow goes just as well. Had about enough breakdowns and crap to deal with for one year.
 
This past weekend I was up in NY state about an hour from the Canada border. Was I crazy or were there still a lot of guys making FIRST cutting hay ? It was very very heavy and a tangled mess with dead tops. It looked as if it was going to be tough but hay is hay.
 
Jeffcat, A lot of first cutting just got done last week around here. Rained again tonight about 6:30. We are about half way between Albany and Binghamton.
 
The sad thing is that the corn and beans are rooted so shallow due to the previous rains and now compaction that they need rain to move on into the fill stage. Crops around here are going to be LATE coming out and we don't need 20 inches of snow a week before Thanksgiving like last year. What little hay I had is shot and trying to get somebody to combine the timothy for seed is past prime. Stressful does not begin to describe what I feel.
 
Half way through first cut myself. The only good thing about it is that the second cut has grown up through it. Pretty tough to work, but it WILL be better than snowballs next winter.
 
(quoted from post at 16:37:20 08/15/17) Jeffcat, A lot of first cutting just got done last week around here. Rained again tonight about 6:30. We are about half way between Albany and Binghamton.
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Do the subways runout that far?
 
It has been so wet and humid here in s.w. Pa that a lot of hay fields are being rotary mowed. Tough year to get hay made.
 
We have a Subway in Oneonta but you eat there .lol, Photo is where I worked last week.
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Yeah - it's been a tough one - good luck with it. I still have 30 acres of first cutting to go. There's a lot of it still standing around here (Central NY)
It looks good today and tomorrow, so I mowed in a thunderstorm last night
Pete
 
(quoted from post at 20:24:18 08/15/17) This past weekend I was up in NY state about an hour from the Canada border. Was I crazy or were there still a lot of guys making FIRST cutting hay ? It was very very heavy and a tangled mess with dead tops. It looked as if it was going to be tough but hay is hay.
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Thats how it is here, I'm not even 10% done on 1st cut. There is standing water in my flatter meadows and running water coming down the hills. All my culverts are flowing water. We're told Sept/Oct should be drier. Of course having 3-4 hours a day to dry hay instead of 8-10 is a problem...
 
Drove across Tug Hill last weekend. Not one single corn field from Lowville to Adams Center was tasseled. An awful lot of it was yellow. and 2 feet tall...................................Corn crop will be fair at best.
 
Bret, are you trying to do small squares? Once it dries out enough to mow, could you just hire a neighbor to round bale the stuff and wrap it? You have a much wider moisture tolerance with round bales if you wrap them. You can get away with about anything. Rounds are a pain to feed if they are wet enough to freeze in the winter, but there are ways to get around that too.
 
(quoted from post at 11:03:42 08/16/17) Bret, are you trying to do small squares? Once it dries out enough to mow, could you just hire a neighbor to round bale the stuff and wrap it? You have a much wider moisture tolerance with round bales if you wrap them. You can get away with about anything. Rounds are a pain to feed if they are wet enough to freeze in the winter, but there are ways to get around that too.
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I do dry rounds and squares Don. Can't use wrapped with the sheep, or so I'm told. Listeriosis (sp?). What hay I've got I got by cutting 6-8" high to leave the swath up off the ground. It worked. Of course now the undergrowth is the good stuff so I have to cut low and that's a real issue right now. Our freakin' clay simply doesn't "perk" so we have to play the waiting game.

I never thought I would say it, but this might just be worse than last year. It's worrying me more, that's for sure.
 
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