Posted by rrlund on July 06, 2023 at 09:50:06 from (173.225.203.221):
In Reply to: Re: Too late to mow hay posted by Tim in New York on July 06, 2023 at 09:18:18:
We used to put up the bulk of it in July too. I remember going to my brother's place for the 4th one year. It started thundering and we had the first couple of loads of hay for the year sitting outside, so Dad and I went home real quick to back them inside.
When I was a kid, our family reunion was always the second Sunday in July. We were never done by then. I remember an uncle saying one year that he just had one little field to go. I was jealous to say the least. The next year, a cousin said he was all done. That was the earliest I'd ever known anybody to be done at that point in my life. I remember going to the fair about the second or third week of July when I was about 17. I was talking to two other guys I went to school with and one of them said they were all done and had even baled the field they'd been green chopping and were chopping second cutting. That was unheard of for me at the time.
I don't know when we got in such a hurry. It hasn't been too awful many years ago that we had such a wet spring that we couldn't cut any hay in June. I rolled up the first field on the 4th of July that year. I bought my first round baler in 79. I did a lot of custom the first five or six years. I remember leaving a 4th of July picnic to go do custom baling and baled a lot after the 4th most of those years. The real goal was to be done by the time the wheat was ready to cut.
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