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We bale hay all the time with temps in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Low relative humidity and wind can dry things out even at lower temps.

You guys must have much drier climates than around here. Thick clover takes 5-7 days of steady tedding to have any chance at being dry hay around here (and i havent had a 5 day weather window in at least 10 years haha). Even when it feels dry it's still usually well over 20% and molds in a few...

If the bottom is still green then flip it over again and get it to dry. Putting up damp hay that is going to mold is a very costly endeavor.

Looks like there's a bit of un-raked hay at the bottom of that windrow. If so be careful I'll bet it's awfully green.

Fence charger isn't hot enough. Haha. Things are turning green here. Be grazing before June this year it looks like.

Clover in my pastures is great. Clover in my hay fields is miserable. Around here by the time the Clover is dry enough to bale the grass and trefoil in the field is so dry it disintegrates into a cloud of dust out the back of the baler.

Still in a D2 severe drought according to the USDA map which is unheard of for April and May UP here. But when your average snowfall is 175" and you only get 47" during the winter you are headed for trouble.

I agree unless you need the dog all the time they will typically be more of a hinderance than a help.

Snowed here this morning. Only about 2" so not much liquid in it. Very dry otherwise.

Not saying it can't happen but that would have to be some kind of poor hay. There was a guy around here that often made 1st cut hay in October and November often with snow flying. His cows always survived our harsh winter and he had reasonable breeding success given his conditions. Never once...

We get a lot of wind here too comes across 80+ miles of open water or ice and practically the first thing it hits is my front door. The wind blows our snow around too but when it's typically 4-6' deep it typically never blows it to bare ground. Just blows some spots to 1' and others to 12'.

Learn something everyday. Wouldn't have guessed that you could graze all year in Wyoming. Now I know. This is such an anomaly of a year we could have grazed all but a couple of weeks so far. But in all my other years I've never grazed past Christmas time, so I've never had a thought of having...

Interesting. Being in Wyoming I just assumed you got enough snow cover to make grazing this time of year impossible.

A good chunk of our yearly precip comes from our 180" of average snowfall. Being right on the largest body of freshwater we also get our fair share of rain and humidity to get us thru the growing season. But our ground water comes from the slow melting snow.

I'm expecting a large drop in ground moisture unless something changes. Melting snow is a slow continuous process (snow melts from below even at -10), so it really does wonders to replenishing the ground water stores. Going to be interesting so see what the rest of winter brings.

You feed 2/3 of your hay between March 1st and say May 10th? So 2/3 of your hay in ~10 weeks? So the other 1/3 of your hay would last ~3.3 weeks? Meaning you don't start feeding much hay until into February typically?

Earliest I've ever turned cows out in the spring is around May 15th latest was a couple years back at June 18th I think it was. So in all my years spring turn out hasn't varied much over a month. On the other hand I've started feeding hay as early at October 10th and now as late as Janurary...

This looks to be the easiest winter I've ever seen. Grazed cows until Jan 7th which is 1.5-2 months later than typical. We had 1 week of below zero weather the rest has been above average. We've had less than 80 inches of snowfall which is crazy low. I wish I had more fenced pasture as I could...

With our wet clay soils the hooves in the woods lead to crown dieback in just about every forest cover type here. Aspen or northern hardwood both die off when used in a grazing system. I have 200 acres of timber (mix of aspen, softwood, and hardwood). All of it is getting logged off before it...

Brand of net wrap makes a huge difference. I used some brand of net wrap called "harvest gold" I think it was and I needed 3.5 wraps on dry hay to keep from exploding. Went back to Tama and at 1.75 don't have an issues, when I use Prichett I can go to 1.25 wrap and the bales stay together just...