I've never seen anyone bale hay a day after Christmas

Geo-TH,In · Dec 27, 2018

I've never seen anyone bale hay a day after Christmas in Indiana. Not sure if you could call it hay, more like weeds.
I didn't get a chance to take a pic. Why would anyone bale anything this time of year? It's hasn't been that warm.

SVcummins · Dec 27, 2018

Did a bunch of work on the baler and want to see if it will run ? I did the same thing with my sickle mower last March

Geo-TH,In · Dec 27, 2018

I did he had a new grew green baler. Might need to test it out.

jeremy in NE · Dec 27, 2018

Could be making mulch hay for mushroom barns like the onelonlyfarmer on YouTube. I think he has 1500-2000 acres to cut and bale yet

gtractorfan · Dec 27, 2018

Not that warm -- or that dry. Better clean out the bale chamber or deal with rust.

Lazy WP · Dec 27, 2018

Back in 1998, I had my folks place leased. There was a 230 acre pivot that had just come out of CRP. Local contractor was in need of ?road? hay so I mowed raked and baled 200 acres of 6 foot tall Switch grass the first week of January. The old 450 Farmall diesel with its mounted set of Kosch mowers was a bit cool to run in north central Nebraska in January but I don?t remember any snow that year

830 · Dec 27, 2018

my brother in law and neighbor have baled a lot of meadow hay in the last wk going to use it for bedding and banking there done now its snowing pretty good now

TB Farms · Dec 27, 2018

Neighbor baled some alfalfa on Christmas Eve a few years back. Did it to get the hay off so not to damage the stand underneath the windrow. Hay had been down since thanksgiving. Don?t ask me why he would cut it in November!

unclesilo · Dec 27, 2018

I ain't in Indiana but I have baled hay on every day that ends in y and during all 12 months of some years. If you bale it now it has to be fed quickly and when your feeding 50 per day it sure doesn't take long to see it go away. I know it wasn't much value but it beat a snowball.

paul · Dec 27, 2018

So,e areas of the country it was very difficult to make hay any month of this miserable long year. At that point, ?it beats feeding snowballs? kicks in and one gets the feedstocks one can possibly get.

There is lots of folk trying to harvest corn and soybeans in pockets across the country yet.

Been a tough year for some.

Paul

M-MAN · Dec 28, 2018

Not here. You would need a boat even larger than the one you needed when it should have been cut. Beans are still in the field too. My guess is they will be cut in come spring cause they aren't going to dry in the rain. Hay was about half this year and none of the beans got dry enough to harvest.

Dachshund · Dec 28, 2018

Last December (2017), there was a guy just north of Trenton MO who baled about 200 acres of hay. Turned out to be pretty good stuff!

MJMJ · Dec 28, 2018

Bedding

I've never seen anyone bale hay a day after Christmas

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