Dad raised oats for over thirty years in the county just west of you, I"ve raised oats, barley, wheat for over thirty years a half hour SW of you. We always swathed the grain, but not out of habit- just need. I"ve seen a couple neighbors straight cut very clean barley, maybe twice. Today"s combines can hammer out a standing crop, but if it heats in the bin- then what? A very mature standing crop will lose a lot by a delay in combining. A swathed crop, left to dry a few days, will let the weeds and grain dry, and the oats can/should be cut before dead ripe. Kernels should be hard, and shell out in your hand with a bit of rubbing. First year I farmed, it was wet, some oats laid for 3 weeks- oats was ok, although the underseeded alfalfa was damaged. Once I had wet barley that was in danger of sprouting- and built the fluffer pictured, using a JD windrow pickup with a hyd motor drive to vary speed, and a center cylinder to switch from side to side. Looks cobbled together, because it was- in about a day. By setting ground speed and fluffer speed, could pick up the windrow, pull it apart a bit, and move it over...onto new underseeding.
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