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Because we hate chipping ice and net wrap off bales in the winter and don't feed it to our cattle. Sisal twine may take a bit longer to bale but we don't worry about it killing cows or creating a plastic garbage dump of our ranch.
And thanks!
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farmerjan
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X100....
Needed a trailer with no jack moved and a few cutting pictures. Crew wrapped 75 silage bales. Our full time cutting help is away at a wedding and a young guy who cut for us in 2020 had 10 days off so he came back. We finished cutting Morrison Meadow today and moved to the C2 Meadow ( named for brand previous owners used years ago)
Really smoky today.
They were baling at far left of last photo.
Really smoky today.
They were baling at far left of last photo.
ok I see. I understand the frozen netwrap.. that stuff will stick like glue. The few days its frozen around here I get bales out of the barn so I don't have to deal with it. I'll take my netwrap and use it as fire starter in brush piles, helps get the tires going.
chevytaHOE5674
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You need more snow cover then your netwrap won't be a problem. Haha
Logan52
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What type of grass is that? Do you ever have it tested for protein and digestibility?
Once I bought a load of bluestem from Kansas and the cows did not seem to know what it was at first.
It is mostly fescue or orchard grass for us here, mixed with red clover in our better hay. I do feed some alfalfa at times.
Our small and rolling hayfields are quite a contrast to yours.
Looks exciting were I younger, now it mostly resembles a lot of work.
Once I bought a load of bluestem from Kansas and the cows did not seem to know what it was at first.
It is mostly fescue or orchard grass for us here, mixed with red clover in our better hay. I do feed some alfalfa at times.
Our small and rolling hayfields are quite a contrast to yours.
Looks exciting were I younger, now it mostly resembles a lot of work.
Mostly Meadow Foxtail mixed with wild grasses. We have had it as high as 13% protein and 64% tdn. It is a weed that grows well with flood irrigation and no commercial fertilizer. We fed cows on most of this field last winter.
kenny thomas
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How close is that fire to you?
Close to 40 miles.
1982vett
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Dirty window...my donkey.
I got myself a little overheated Tuesday. Just looking at those pictures is draining my energy. It's 97f (36.1c) with a heat index of 106f (41.1c). Just got back from the dermatologist. She took 4 biopsies. I'm supposed to keep wounds dry so good excuse to stay inside.
I got myself a little overheated Tuesday. Just looking at those pictures is draining my energy. It's 97f (36.1c) with a heat index of 106f (41.1c). Just got back from the dermatologist. She took 4 biopsies. I'm supposed to keep wounds dry so good excuse to stay inside.
TexasJerseyMilker
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"We are at Anahim Lake BC."
No wonder your photos and life style with the beautiful slanted light of vast mountains and grasslands of the Canadian North West.
Ever read ? https://www.amazon.com/Grass-Beyond...g-Frontier/dp/1400026628?tag=cattletoday00-20
One of the PNW pioneer cattle rancher stories ever? It is a trilogy.
No wonder your photos and life style with the beautiful slanted light of vast mountains and grasslands of the Canadian North West.
Ever read ? https://www.amazon.com/Grass-Beyond...g-Frontier/dp/1400026628?tag=cattletoday00-20
One of the PNW pioneer cattle rancher stories ever? It is a trilogy.
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I knew quite a few of the book's characters in their later years. Hobson had passed a few years previously. I asked Tommy Holte if it was true that he had nearly drowned in a bathtub and been run over by a bicycle in Williams Lake. He grinned and said it wasn't him but Alfred Bryant. Tommy would speak ill of no man but he went on to say that Rich could go for an hour fishing in a boat, see a butterfly and write a full length book about it.
I know Pan's Canadian family, the eldest passed a couple of years ago. His daughter Diana wrote a couple of books herself that are very factual.
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TexasJerseyMilker
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Wow . . . .
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There are also gangranchchilcochoate books that were interesting to read.
Choate wasn't a friend to cattlemen.
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Thanks, I trust your opinion, and Silvers, 100% on that topic.
Now back to the hayfields and the beautiful scenery.
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40 is really too close for comfort, but as green as everything looks there, especially the meadow, I'd guess it's not going to move at too rapid of a pace. I was thinking possibly meadow foxtail. Good to hear it makes good hay. Prairie cordgrass also crossed my mind, but I don't think it would make good hay, and would be coarser and taller. It also likes it's feet wetter than what is conducive to hay I think.
Twisted
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Love seeing green dry bales, always made me feel like I did something right.
