OT Hay, When the rain stops

What do you do with the mess when it stops. Will have what was 5'stemmy grass, flat on the ground (stubble), plus at least 3 weeks of growback coming up thru it.

Hard to rake as the growback will be green and the rake will pull up some plants and include them with the mess I cut last week.

Try to bale it direct and the baler will do the same thing. Then the rolls will be just one big mess.

If I go thru it with a shredder, I can't get the shredder high enough off the ground to leave the stubble stalks for good growback; then I'll for sure be putting new hay in with the daily rained on stuff that will be at least 3 weeks old.

What to do, what to do.

Thanks,

Mark

What if I let the regrowth come on up to a couple of feet and come back thru with my haybine and start all over? I guess the haybine will pick up the stuff that was down on the 1st cutting, especially since the regrowth has pushed it up in the air somewhat. The hay quality won't be all that good but it's better than nothing. Seems our cows here eat spoiled hay as fast as good hay. Maybe it decomposes and makes alcohol and they get drunk! LOL.

Mark

Mabe you could burn off the field. Or does anyone close by have a loader with a stacker attachment. Then you could pile it up and feed the cows out of the stack.

steve