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Having said that, for just driving cattle, I'd vote heeler. For anything above and beyond driving: border collie (the heartier BC's, not the sheep or geese ones)

In my experience you get 5 stupid cattle dogs for every good 1.. and a lifetime for 1 great dog.. and then once you realize you've really got a great cattle dog, it gets run over by a truck. Much easier to train your cows to follow a bucket.

Looks like some nice thick hay

Around here we call vetch the poor farmer's alfalfa. I love it

Looks great. I'd have a really hard time not cutting and wrapping that though

Many years ago I penciled out some numbers and determined that for my situation if I fed over 400 bales, it was worthwhile for me to bale my own hay. I currently feed around 1100 bales per year. This year, over 1/2 my hay will come from leased ground. Hay leases can be very good deals in this...

Complaining about too much clover is like complaining about too much money..

Cattle and grass look great. Where's all the calves? Are they fall calvers?

I also don't know of anyone around my area that offers mowing, raking, and baling..I know of a couple that will only bale and seems like around $10/ bale is what they charge. Right now I'm buying and hauling barn stored 4×5.5 bales for $22. I don't need the hay but I have barn space and predict...

My bales weigh around 950#. Currently if I can't sell them for $45-50 a roll, I'd rather save them for my herd.

Just rebuilt one of the corrals with 6 bar pipe panels. That stuff is awesome. Paid $155 per 20' panel

My cattle pick at the ragweed but it has slowly taken over one large pasture..I hate the stuff.. you can keep the ragweed but I'll take all the Johnson grass I can get..

All the first cut is finally in. Due to a very wet June the first cut stretched on for about 3 weeks longer than I'd like. I typically need around 1100 bales to make it through winter and have made 750 so far this year..

Outside of our country, I think this is already true

It'd be a good experiment, but that is 4x the cost of a regular ring...

The sheet metal on the 2 that I tried kept popping off at the welds making for some pretty sharp edges. I pulled them and still have them in the yard from last year until I get a chance to reweld :dunce:

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Made 1200+ bales this year.. Mostly figuring out how to post pics again..

One of the best feelings in the world is to be finished baling for the year. I don't think I had any that didn't get wet at some point, but I made about 100 more bales than I ever had. Great year to grow hay; terrible year to harvest hay..

I've got some mean hills, but the neighbor has some REAL mean hills. I asked him if he got nervous in the tractor clipping the real bad ones. He said, "Naw, but I do get a little worried when I notice that I'm holding my coffee cup sideways".