It turns out we really did have time. But wuth a 60% chance of thunder storms every other day (that never materialized) who knew. The last 2 days when they've been calling for rain we got maybe a half of a tenth each day.Fire Sweep Ranch":lpopuqha said:
Hay Season 2013
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skyhightree1
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all but these made it into the barn.. They got wet...
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skyhightree1
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looks like monday I should be able to lay some hay down if the weather doesnt change.
1982vett
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When you begin to get frustrated, just remember how hard it is to get to dough stage when the wet days are to few.....Fire Sweep Ranch":2mnx9kzj said:
dcarp
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When you begin to get frustrated, just remember how hard it is to get to dough stage when the wet days are to few.....
I totally agree with you Vett. 3 years ago I vowed to NEVER complain about moisture and for sure I never have.....or even had the opportunity. Rain what rain? :???:
I totally agree with you Vett. 3 years ago I vowed to NEVER complain about moisture and for sure I never have.....or even had the opportunity. Rain what rain? :???:
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skyhightree1
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i layed down 39 acres this weekend hopefully will get finished by tuesday... not supposed to rain for 5 days...
AndyL
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Rain today. Rolled hay on the 9th and got it in the barn today, and it started raining with 5 rolls left on the trailer. But it's all under cover now. We haven't had a 4-5 day window sense the 9th.
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skyhightree1
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This is our first 5 day stretch so im busting my arse to get it cut raked and baled I started friday. I hope that water doesnt dry up cause last year I had to feed over 100 rolls between june and august
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skyhightree1
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this is pasture just started renting last year i posted about
bigbull338
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looking real good.id rake 3 or 4 of those windrows into 1 to cat my baling time.
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skyhightree1
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Thanks big I would have 2 but I didn't do the raking on that field one of my guys did it for me i couldnt get mad because I didnt make it clear how I wanted it lol
Nesikep
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I just cut my first field today, looks like good weather for a week, so I'm going at it full bore, plus seeding a field as well, so I'll have my hands full. Last year we had a really bad june, and I was stuck waiting into july for the first cut, which made it overmature and it didn't come up for the second cut... not this year... I would be able to wait a little still as far as maturity, the alfalfa hasn't really started blooming yet, but I can't get another pass of irrigation over it without it lodging, so it'll have to be early.
Atgreene
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Did our first hay today. Small field, local town pays me to mow it. Kinda steep, the old 640 JD rake tried to roll over and play dead.
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skyhightree1
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I can tuck this away for a while... worth its weight in gold to me
Nesikep
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Well, I've got one field stacked, next 2 fields are probably coming in over the weekend.. one of them is a light cut, but wonderful horse hay.. it's all nice fine grasses and such, while the other was a thick stand of alfalfa and OG... that one takes about a week of good weather to dry if I don't want to turn it and risk having a wind give it to my neighbours... All in all I think it's a good start to the haying year.
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skyhightree1
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I agree Nesi it is a good start to the hay year.
AndyL
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skyhightree1":3qr6dx0n said:
Yep, in the end it's all good. Even tho we sometimes complain, just Thank The Good Lord for another day.
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skyhightree1
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I decided to cut hay around the pond instead of bushhogging it
Kathie in Thorp
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Hay season is on full-swing in the Kittitas Valley. Rainy weather held it off for a couple weeks, but they're going gang-busters now that it's dry and we have some wind. We usually buy first cutting: Orchard grass for winter feeding and some alfalfa for finishing steers. This year, for first cutting not too far from home: $200/ton for pretty darn good orchard grass; $240/ton real nice alfalfa. Timothy is the high-dollar hay crop here, but we don't feed it -- the horse people on the west side love it, but we think it's over-rated.
Half done with my first cutting, been too wet to get in the bottoms to finish. Had weather since Wednesday buy the 5 inches of rain last Sunday kept me out of the field. Lots of hay not cut here, quality is going really be done. I dread mowing mine, wind and rain has really laid it over.
