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I see lots of folks swathing there oats then combining them.

Whats the advantage over direct cutting with a grain head?

Could I swath mine w/ haybine or would the conditioners beat the grain off?

Ron
 
I planted a small plot of oats this spring, maybe an acre. Im gonna fence it off and let the cows in to harvest it. Will that hurt them any? I wouldent think it would, but I just thought Id ask. I did the same thing with our sweet corn a couple years ago, after picking it I turned out the cows on it. j
 
Years ago when we had oats to combine Dad always liked windrowed oats as it would not go through a sweat in the bin. Yes we did windrow with a New Holland Haybine. We would run a two by four into the rolls at each end by hand (Not the Tractor) and then put spacers in each end. Then run the Haybine about 1/3 to 1/2 speed and it did a good job.
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Iowa Bob
 
If using a moco, cut it early- open rolls can still lose grain. More loss if dead ripe. Helps to cut during dew, as well.
 
Just finished shocking 6 acres of oats. Cut them with a binder, and then stacked them in shocks, like the Amish do. They'll dry down for a couple weeks, before we take them to a steam show and run them through a old fashioned thrash machine. Advantages is that grain, weeds and grass will all be dry and thrash out cleanly. When I was a kid, I can remember having to take combined oats to the local elevator to be dried and run thru a fanning mill to get weed products out so would be fit to store in a bin. Suggest that swathing the oats would fall in the same category.
 
I just cut 10 acres of oats today. We have a Hesston 1014+2 haybine. It has a removeable crimper so I drop that before cutting our oats. The ideal machine is a self propelled swather with canvas belts to bring the crop to the windrow.

Our haybine is a hydro-swing and has an auger instead of the belts, but it works pretty good. We do loose a certain amount, but not too much and I like being able to do it myself. I also have to slow down the reel some compared to how fast I run for hay so I don't knock as much grain off.

The oats come out cleaner, & drier, and the custom guy running the oats has less troubles with the combine. A few years in a row they insisted on running the oats standing. They were breaking belts, plugging up every 100 yards the grain was wet, and it took way too long to run the small amount we have. SInce we insisted on swathing it before they run it, they run much faster and easier.

Donovan from Wisconsin
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Swathing gives anything that is still green in the oats a chance to dry out before you combine it. We have always swathed our oats before combining. (In fact, I just got home from doing that about 20 minutes ago - had to quit because a thunderstorm was coming.) Usually our oats has either some green grass in with it or is underseeded with alfalfa (or both). I even swath my wheat since I already have the equipment to do it.
 
Swathed 9 acres of oats on Saturday. Using our MF36 12' swather. I use the same machine for hay, just drop the conditioner out from under it. Nice crop of alfalfa coming up under the oats. I cut it with about 8" of stubble to keep the swath off the ground for air circulation. One side of the field had a lot of blowdown from the rain on Friday night, so I had to cut a little lower to get under the oats, which caused more alfalfa to get cut into the swath. We will probably combine on Thursday. Would think it would be a real mess to try to run that alfalfa thru the combine if cut direct. Sure is stressful though watching the weather forecasts, hoping it don't rain and flatten the windrows. Sorta like standing around with your pants down for 4 days.
 
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