I'm in Western SC. There are few dairies here, the ones that remain are big and use self propelled silage choppers. They try to cut silage in a relatively short period, I guestimate 3 weeks.
The last self propelled hay cutters were the old Hesstons which weren't very big. Disc mower conditioners are too expensive to have self propelled ones. Fields are usually too small to justify a large self propelled, and roads are too narrow for easy transport.
Pull type disc mower conditioners with 10 foot cuts are fairly popular. New sickle bar mower conditioners are a dead issue, no one wants them once they use a disc mower. A lot of people like me use a 3ph disc mower. Alfalfa is seldom grown here because of climate and expense of growing and maintaining a stand.
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