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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...

Some of my home farm was planted into corn 7 years ago. Since then it has been chisel plowed, planted into grass, hay'd, and grazed. Go for a walk thru the fields and there is still stalk residue out there.

This crazy "winter" (if you can call it that) has me still grazing and rotating the herd thru some 2nd crop pastures and whatever regrowth is there. Enough grass left to get into 2024 but that's about it. If this weather continues I'm going to wish I had more grass fenced. Ha

My cows would find that lush new growth from a mile away and have those tender roots ripped out in no time flat.

Unless you live in the north... haha

Only mad I can't find someone to bale my hay that cheaply. Cant fault the buyer one bit. Like I said if I could buy or have hay baled as cheap as some of you guys I would park everything I own other than a loader, net the same income, and take up another summer hobby. I feel like some of those...

Everyone's situation is indeed different. What's the same for everyone is the staggering increase in production cost the last few years. If you keep newer late model equipment you are fully aware of this, if you have older stuff bought a few years ago you may not be as aware. Take FarmerJans 3...

Nearly 30k for a base model JD baler with one of the poorest pickups and reliability of any current offerings? Seems like a bargain. That's just less than I paid for a brand new top of the line optioned out baler years ago.

Forgot to mention the deutz 1006 and Ac 7040 are great tractors. But when things break down it could be an issue. Probably 10 years ago already a neighbors deutz 1006 knocked a tooth off a gear on the first day of hay season. That tractor sat for 6+ months in my shop while we tracked down good...

I have one single newer round baler and have yet to have a breakdown that puts me out of commission in the last probably 22,000 bales. I can also bale nearly twice as much hay in a single day with my current baler/ tractor combo than i was with just 2 generations older of baler and an old...