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Allan in NE · Jun 19, 2009

Ya should have seen it yesterday. :>(

Wanna see some hail damage? That alfalfa was as tall as the fence posts when I came home last night.

The big white mower in the sky took care of that fer sure.

Allan

MSS3020 · Jun 19, 2009

I escaped it. I live down by Firth. We had it go South of us. I havent been able to get into cut my alf. Cant get enough sun to last. How"d buldings, etc. fare?

kopeck · Jun 19, 2009

Here I was thinking that you folks thought all moisture is good!

K

Allan in NE · Jun 19, 2009

Think maybe this one was guided by GPS.

Took a 1/2 mile swath across the top end of my place and leveled about 130 acres. Left the southern end, wheat and buildings alone; seemed to have left the neighbors alone too.

Think I'm being tested. :>)

Allan

Allan in NE · Jun 19, 2009

'Spose it would be asking too much for a second cutting, huh? :>)

Allan

randallinMo · Jun 19, 2009

How's the best way to manage this now? Can you go in and cut it immediately so as to retrieve as much as possible?

Janicholson · Jun 19, 2009

That gags me. I hope it just tangled it up and didn't ruin the stems. It could stay alive! Best of luck, it is the fickle nature of weather. Storm here in central MN last evening Hail and damage to our north 1 mile, while the sun stayed on our home. Then another at 2AM (no hail, but a gully washer. Jim

Allan in NE · Jun 19, 2009

Yep,

Just as soon as the ground dries out, I'm gonna go in there with the swather and see if I can somehow pull what's left of those stems into a window, bale 'er up, get it off the field and hope to criminey that there's enough moisture to let it come back.

This is the 7th hailstorm I've taken over the years and it just doesn't get any easier with time. :>(

Allan

Anonymous-0 · Jun 19, 2009

I though when you were being tested was last winter right after I was in that part of the country. Week after we made our mid /north tour you got snow drifts a 1066 would,n go thry. Bets I remember you had cows out everywhere. seems like you need to just sell out and come to beatuifull TN. O Yea we like those retired northerns that have fat checkbooks..W,ll take your money and make you feel right at home..
Good luck on the second crop. Been raining everday here. Hope to start combining the wheat this afternoon, then finish hardlanding the beans..May try a few acres of sunflower hardland.
Have a good one Jerry

Allan in NE · Jun 19, 2009

Don't quite know how to get that stuff up off the ground.

Might have to hook up to this mower with the aggresive reel?

Allan

Steven f/AZ · Jun 19, 2009

Can you get under it with a sickle bar mower?

On our haybine we can tilt the header down so that the guards "scoop" up the crop - but then they also dig into the mole hills and pick up rocks...

I hope the big white combine stays away from Dad's farm this summer...

randallinMo · Jun 19, 2009

If you can get your hands on a disc mower, they create a "suction" that lifts the crop somewhat to enhance cutting.

Nancy Howell · Jun 19, 2009

Yuck! Sorry to see that, Allan. Hope you can salvage it and get a great second cutting.

keh · Jun 19, 2009

Agree with the other post about using a disc mower. I think a disc mower, preferrably a 3ph type, would get it all. Cut heavy hay yesterday, got some hay piled up on bar and it matted down a streak. Second pass over it with a clean bar cleaned it up.

KEH

JMS/.MN · Jun 19, 2009

Disc mower or discbine. Had my discbine 11 years and never plugged it- whether cutting lodged alfalfa, grain, or weeds higher than the tractor cab. Would probably have to slow down to 3 mph on a field like that, tho.

Billy NY · Jun 19, 2009

That is discouraging, blizzards, lack of rain, too much rain, ....... think they're done throwin curve balls at you yet ?

Don't worry, hay is not going well here, we lost the dry window for it, as my friend was hospitalized, his son got a little aggressive mowing last week, then again, have to get it off the field anyway, but it got rained on, hit it with the tedder and just before this latest round of rain, got it raked up, windrows still had some questionable moisture, he bales it, darned bales are lop sided, not sure what is going on there, but they don't stack right, we had to unroll several, re-bale, not sure if any have wet spots that have been baled up, they did not put the pallets down in the barn 1st, all of it has to come back out and re-stacked, last load, was dark, other son must have caught the back door on the truck, bent the ram like a banana, I was worried about the height and the 115,000 volt lines and clearance heading back, we got it down far enough, and there is no end in sight for the rain.

Not sure what was up with the round baler, new 582 JD, sileage special, windrows, the way he was loading it, something mechanical, though most were close, something was not right, one thing is for sure, doing hay will never change, though we've had better days !

Anonymous-0 · Jun 19, 2009

That is very bad luck. I got caught in a hail storm on Sunday with my kids, boat, and jetski. However, we just got to the lake and had not yet put in so we rode it out in my daughter's car. It got has big as shelled corn and lasted awhile but did no damage. Several families came in off of the water with scared kids and mad wives. We have a tornado watch today in Indiana.

Goose · Jun 19, 2009

I live north of Milford. I found out when I was farming that the premiums for crop hail insurance on my place were the lowest in the state. There's a small narrow strip through here.

My parents had hail insurance for over 20 years, and only had one small claim that wasn't enough to offset all the premiums they paid, so they quit the hail insurance.

On the flip side, there's a stretch from Kearney to Broken Bow where it's not a matter of "if" they get hailed out, it's a matter of "when". We have friends in Broken Bow, and I don't think there's a car in town over a year old that doesn't have hail dings somewhere.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 19, 2009

Just a thought, if it wasnt for your day job you would not be a farmer anymore.

GeneMO · Jun 19, 2009

You dont want to get you premiums back. The premiums you pay are for peace of mind.

The ins. guarantee should allow you to contract a crop at a higher price, hence paying for the ins. You might not take the risk to forward contract without the insurance.

You dont hope lightning hits your machine shed and burns up all your machinery do you? Just to get your premium back?

That's how I look at it.

Gene

kyplowboy · Jun 19, 2009

There were patches of it pretty bad just up the road from my house. I drove past a few hundred acres of corn bout waist high yesterday that I would say was about 1/2 striped. Uncle of mine said you could not tell his tobacco patch used to have tobacco in it. Guess if we had to have hail it was better now than August, least now we can reset tobacco, replant beans, and hope for a second hay cutting. I didn't get any hail in the last storm but it is still to wet to spray my tobacco (been set 9 days now).

Sorry bout your hay, hope you can make something out of it and maybe better luck with the next cutting. I know you have a rough year.

Dave

Allan in NE · Jun 19, 2009

Yeah,

This hail follows me around like a bad habit just like the last time.

Hughbanks just asked me to move up the road a ways. :>)

Allan

Old Roy · Jun 19, 2009

Too bad they don't have something like a tedder to stand it back up.

RodinNS · Jun 19, 2009

Ouch...
I never did much with Haybines, but a good discbine with twisted blades should lift most of that if the head is tilted steep forward and set to shave.
Least it's not raining every single day...

Rod

Heyseed · Jun 19, 2009

Al Gore was right.

ericlb · Jun 20, 2009

that looks bad allan hope you can do something to save some of it, its un natural how something knows just exactly what kind of weather a farmer does not need then it seems that kind of weather is just what he gets

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