creekdrive
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I'm always taking pictures of things (mostly cows, or animals, or nice scenery), but I never seem to get pictures of us actually doing something. So I've made an effort this year to try and get some pictures of seeding, haying, and hopefully harvest etc. I figure it will be neat to look back 20 years from now and see what equipment we were using or what the crops looked like etc.
Anyway I just thought I'd share some pictures of the haying so far this year.
I don't actually do any of the haying work - I let the guys stick to that job. I'll haul bales...but so far I've avoided learning how to run the cutter or baler which is fine with me! This year we have the best hay crops we've had in years, so a good year to start taking pictures for the archives
The first piece they cut. Has only been used as pasture the last 5 or 6 years.
first round
all baled up. Just shy of 4 bales to the acre in the end.
another piece - only the 2nd year it's been seeded to hay. I don't know for sure what the final count was but I think close to 6 bales to the acre! That might be pretty standard for the areas some of you guys are in, but it don't happen very often this part of the world.
a 80 acre piece. Probably the poorest crop this year and it was still almost 3 bales to the acre
they are baling this piece today
the other side of the field
a piece that hasn't been cut yet
baling up a little 3 acre piece that was seeded down last spring.
some of the green feed is ready to be knocked down too. He cut this piece yesterday. Getting a few wild oat patches, but the cows won't mind too much.
For awhile it didn't look like hay was ever going to get cut or baled, it just kept raining every night. Now we've had a stretch with no real rain to speak of (a few little storms that have past through, but we've been lucky and they've missed our hay) and they are pretty well caught back up to the haybines. Running 4 balers and my dad is down for a few days to help and is cutting in a different field. There's a bunch of other fields that I don't have any pictures of yet, but I'll try to remember to add to this thread as I take pictures.
Anyway I just thought I'd share some pictures of the haying so far this year.
I don't actually do any of the haying work - I let the guys stick to that job. I'll haul bales...but so far I've avoided learning how to run the cutter or baler which is fine with me! This year we have the best hay crops we've had in years, so a good year to start taking pictures for the archives
The first piece they cut. Has only been used as pasture the last 5 or 6 years.
first round
all baled up. Just shy of 4 bales to the acre in the end.
another piece - only the 2nd year it's been seeded to hay. I don't know for sure what the final count was but I think close to 6 bales to the acre! That might be pretty standard for the areas some of you guys are in, but it don't happen very often this part of the world.
a 80 acre piece. Probably the poorest crop this year and it was still almost 3 bales to the acre
they are baling this piece today
the other side of the field
a piece that hasn't been cut yet
baling up a little 3 acre piece that was seeded down last spring.
some of the green feed is ready to be knocked down too. He cut this piece yesterday. Getting a few wild oat patches, but the cows won't mind too much.
For awhile it didn't look like hay was ever going to get cut or baled, it just kept raining every night. Now we've had a stretch with no real rain to speak of (a few little storms that have past through, but we've been lucky and they've missed our hay) and they are pretty well caught back up to the haybines. Running 4 balers and my dad is down for a few days to help and is cutting in a different field. There's a bunch of other fields that I don't have any pictures of yet, but I'll try to remember to add to this thread as I take pictures.