M-5":1cl55qq6 said:If we get some rain this week , MAYBE in 3 weeks I can cut some. Our nighttime temps changed this week and we finally had temps above 65 and the grass is trying to grow just need some moisture now .
Jeanne - Simme Valley":1dcf5zzq said:Dairy farmers are putting up haylage. The only fields I have seen mowed for hay is my neighbor that does my hay - put up baleage which is what mine will be. NO ONE is thinking about dry hay - although we did have 3-4 days of sunshine. If timed right, could have dry baled a little.
snoopdog":9q410ar3 said:Funny , how you walk through it , and can't hardly , but when it's on the ground , it don't seem like much.
TM, I have to confess my ignorance on what you mean by "wet crop ", which I normally associate with silage. Unless you consider the wheat a wet crop , we just have mixed grass and dry it normally .Texasmark":3byp4nag said:snoopdog":3byp4nag said:Funny , how you walk through it , and can't hardly , but when it's on the ground , it don't seem like much.
My sentiments exactly. Question for you. I notice you are bailing wet crop. How are you going to process and put it up?
My first cutting this year, the week of April 8, was peas and Jumbo Rye and it was dry when I cut it and over 4 days I tedded probably 3 times, had sunshine and moderate temps. Peas dried out good but stems on the Rye stayed green and a fingernail squeezed along the stem with an open end didn't produce any visible moisture; leaves were ready to shatter. Regardless, I baled it (rain on the way as usual) and after about 10 days it was browning. Didn't feel I deserved that. Should have been ok. Fed it out before it ruined.
Second field was Perennial Rye and Fescue I cut May 9 and it cured out ok and made some nice hay.