Good crop of hay

Destroked 450 · May 23, 2023

I reworked and reseeded a 15 acre field last fall, field was really rough with a lot of weeds
This is a rented field that was plowed many years ago and never disced or worked down, what grass was on it was all volunteer
The hay looks thick with lots of blow down from rain and winds
Should make lots of round bales and better quality than before
So far I m just enjoying a smoother ride across the field

I have found about a dozen of these so far that I have removed from the field

I m guessing birds or wind brought it in but we ll be looking for it earlier next season to remove it before it blooms

jon f mn · May 23, 2023

What kind of seed did you plant? That
looks like a real nice crop.

paul · May 23, 2023

Good stuff!

Paul

Destroked 450 · May 23, 2023

Normally for cow hay I use Fescue, Orchard Grass, Timothy and clover
This appears to have some other mixes as well, may be some of the old grasses or in the seed I used
I don t pay extra for certified clean seed just for cow hay

Fescue isn t a great hay grass but it keeps our Ky hills from eroding as bad as it does without it

paul · May 23, 2023

Almost no one plants grass hay here. Alfalfa is the hay crop.

Grass comes from road ditches and ground too wet to farm but it dries enough to get a hay cutting now and then, other waste patches.

Paul

Tgrasher · May 23, 2023

That weed you removed is called Poison
Hemlock and is spreading rapidly in my area
along railroads and highways. Nothing will
eat it and as the name implies, it's toxic
to humans.

Destroked 450 · May 23, 2023

(quoted from post at 11:44:59 05/23/23) Almost no one plants grass hay here. Alfalfa is the hay crop.

Grass comes from road ditches and ground too wet to farm but it dries enough to get a hay cutting now and then, other waste patches.

Paul

My ground is to wet to grow good Alfalfa plus the cost to maintain and produce Alfalfa hay doesn t pencil out for winter feeding beef cows
Most of the Alfalfa hay raised around me goes to horse farms

Destroked 450 · May 23, 2023

(quoted from post at 11:47:09 05/23/23) That weed you removed is called Poison
Hemlock and is spreading rapidly in my area
along railroads and highways. Nothing will
eat it and as the name implies, it's toxic
to humans.

Yes Poison Hemlock is what that plant is, toxic to humans and animals
A lot of it along roadside ditches anymore, 10 years ago you rarely seen it
Highway departments wait to long to spray it so it will be back next year
I had one small area with it a few years ago but got it wiped out, this is the first I ve seen in this field, if you can kill it before it flowers it won t coma back, wasn t expecting to see it in this field so didn t look for it earlier
I will be looking for it next time

Matt(NEIA) · May 24, 2023

What tractor are you using and what
model/width disc mower? Looking at
upgrading my sickle mower and going with a
disc mower. Thanks

Destroked 450 · May 24, 2023

Ford 5600 tractor, around 62 pto hp
Mower is a Kuhn GMD2850TL trailed 9 ft disc mower with no conditioner, I ve pulled it with my Ford 4000

Destroked 450 · May 24, 2023

Well that s not good, was tedding hay yesterday when things went south

If not for that one gusset the left wing would have broken completely off my old tedder
You can see the left side basket turned down much more than the other
Took the bearing out and bent the shaft as well, with the amount of wear it was in the wing pivots and tilt mechanism I figured it was time to retire it
I purchased it over 25 years ago and it s been over a lot of ground

Picked up this Claas from a friend that only used it a couple years before selling his cattle and quit making hay

This post was edited by Destroked 450 on 05/24/2023 at 09:10 pm.

Texasmark · May 25, 2023

FYI:

https://rangeplants.tamu.edu/plant/poison-hemlock/

I had an exploson of white flowered plants this spring. Was worried as the boo birds are always booing something. I learned that
there are seveal non-toxic white, small flowered, bunch blossom plants. I came away with the main ingredient and that was, it can
grow tall, the leaf looks more like an arrowhead shaped Fern, the stem is slick, no fuzz, and has red spots which none of the safe
plants have. So went around my field visiting the outbursts and found several of the varieties, but no PS......yeah! If you find some,
2-4-D Amine has in on the susceptible plants list.

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