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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1684804" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>We made our first 12 acres. Had a window about 2 weeks earlier but waiting on baler parts as a bearing was going out. Parts are hard to get, then got the wrong ones. Son cut Friday, tedded Sat. I tedded Sunday morning and then started raking at 2 or so. Hay didn't look that thick but got 120 couple 4x5 rolls on 9 1/2 acres of orchard grass and 25 rolls on 2 1/2 acres of mixed grass. A few green clumps but they get rolled on the outside of the bales so as to not make them overheat, and catch on fire or to mold. Never would have believed it made that much.</p><p>Son said he couldn't believe it and I said it is because we have been working on adding to the soil instead of like in the past when the friend that owned it just took and only put back chemical fertilizer. We use alot of chicken/poultry litter and it is finally showing up in better tilth and topsoil.... The friend used and used the farm and it is still showing some real poor places.... pastures are poor and we keep trying to build it back with rolling out hay, litter where we can get to to spread... slow going. We also use cover crops in the fall and then kill or till back in....son is in the process of buying it so now it is worth all the work. </p><p>Got alot to go and it is already headed out... but 30-50% chance for the next 4-5 days so no sense in laying it down when it can most likely get wet and then have to be worked so much to make it crap bedding.... Made decent, overmature is definitely preferable, to cut and then reworked 3 or 4 times to get it dry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1684804, member: 25884"] We made our first 12 acres. Had a window about 2 weeks earlier but waiting on baler parts as a bearing was going out. Parts are hard to get, then got the wrong ones. Son cut Friday, tedded Sat. I tedded Sunday morning and then started raking at 2 or so. Hay didn't look that thick but got 120 couple 4x5 rolls on 9 1/2 acres of orchard grass and 25 rolls on 2 1/2 acres of mixed grass. A few green clumps but they get rolled on the outside of the bales so as to not make them overheat, and catch on fire or to mold. Never would have believed it made that much. Son said he couldn't believe it and I said it is because we have been working on adding to the soil instead of like in the past when the friend that owned it just took and only put back chemical fertilizer. We use alot of chicken/poultry litter and it is finally showing up in better tilth and topsoil.... The friend used and used the farm and it is still showing some real poor places.... pastures are poor and we keep trying to build it back with rolling out hay, litter where we can get to to spread... slow going. We also use cover crops in the fall and then kill or till back in....son is in the process of buying it so now it is worth all the work. Got alot to go and it is already headed out... but 30-50% chance for the next 4-5 days so no sense in laying it down when it can most likely get wet and then have to be worked so much to make it crap bedding.... Made decent, overmature is definitely preferable, to cut and then reworked 3 or 4 times to get it dry. [/QUOTE]
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