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<blockquote data-quote="Springfieldsimm" data-source="post: 1749992" data-attributes="member: 42580"><p>Really interesting hearing how others do their hay. </p><p>We make about 40 acres of hay, mostly orchard grass and clover. Generally 150-200 4x5 rounds and 400-600 small squares. We sell all the squares and the extra rounds that we don't need. </p><p>We make about 40 bales of wet hay individual wrapped to feed to the cows after calving. The rest all dry. </p><p>I just finished baling the last of 1st cutting tonight. We usually make 3 cuttings then once we run out of grass in the pasture in late fall early winter we run the cows through the hayfields as a fourth cutting. Sometimes we don't get all the 3rd cutting made so then there is more stocked piled for the cows when we graze it. </p><p>We try to cut our hay in the afternoon and evenings we have been told that is when the sugars are up in the leaves and stem therefore making better quality hay. We then Tedder the following afternoon and rake and bale the third day. </p><p>Equipment</p><p>Case 5140 tractor (mowing and baling)</p><p>Massey 2705e w/ loader (tedding, raking, moving bales)</p><p>New Holland 7230 discbine</p><p>Pequea TT 4400 tedder</p><p>Frontier 8 wheel rake</p><p>Clause Rollant 66 baler</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Springfieldsimm, post: 1749992, member: 42580"] Really interesting hearing how others do their hay. We make about 40 acres of hay, mostly orchard grass and clover. Generally 150-200 4x5 rounds and 400-600 small squares. We sell all the squares and the extra rounds that we don’t need. We make about 40 bales of wet hay individual wrapped to feed to the cows after calving. The rest all dry. I just finished baling the last of 1st cutting tonight. We usually make 3 cuttings then once we run out of grass in the pasture in late fall early winter we run the cows through the hayfields as a fourth cutting. Sometimes we don’t get all the 3rd cutting made so then there is more stocked piled for the cows when we graze it. We try to cut our hay in the afternoon and evenings we have been told that is when the sugars are up in the leaves and stem therefore making better quality hay. We then Tedder the following afternoon and rake and bale the third day. Equipment Case 5140 tractor (mowing and baling) Massey 2705e w/ loader (tedding, raking, moving bales) New Holland 7230 discbine Pequea TT 4400 tedder Frontier 8 wheel rake Clause Rollant 66 baler [/QUOTE]
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