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How wet is the ground under it? Irrigated fields I assume? Here it would be about 3-4 days... lay out to dry and respiration.... maybe rake tomorrow late afternoon, "turn up" the green underside... leave it lay another day... should be ready to bale if the humidity stays real low and the wind keeps air flow...

BUT.... I do not know your climate... and the hay looks like it was in really really nice vegetative state... Do you tedd any of it?
Wish we had that nice a green looking hay... great nutrition.....and just one field like that to make and not have to travel all over to make hay.....😲😲😲😲🤫
 
farmerjan said:
How wet is the ground under it? Irrigated fields I assume? Here it would be about 3-4 days... lay out to dry and respiration.... maybe rake tomorrow late afternoon, "turn up" the green underside... leave it lay another day... should be ready to bale if the humidity stays real low and the wind keeps air flow...

BUT.... I do not know your climate... and the hay looks like it was in really really nice vegetative state... Do you tedd any of it?
Wish we had that nice a green looking hay... great nutrition.....and just one field like that to make and not have to travel all over to make hay.....😲😲😲😲🤫
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I shut off the irrigation there about 2 weeks ago to dry off the ground. I will need to get the hay hauled off so I can open the water back up. The grass was headed out and dry on top. Over on the coast everyone owned a tedder. Here they don't even know what one is. In fact most hay gets baled in the night or early morning to catch a little dew on it. It is supposed to be 86 today and 88 tomorrow. Then a couple days in the 90's. By Saturday it goes to 100 and stays above 100 for the rest of the 10 day forecast. Looks like I will be hauling hay in hot weather.
 
Dave said:
I shut off the irrigation there about 2 weeks ago to dry off the ground. I will need to get the hay hauled off so I can open the water back up. The grass was headed out and dry on top. Over on the coast everyone owned a tedder. Here they don't even know what one is. In fact most hay gets baled in the night or early morning to catch a little dew on it. It is supposed to be 86 today and 88 tomorrow. Then a couple days in the 90's. By Saturday it goes to 100 and stays above 100 for the rest of the 10 day forecast. Looks like I will be hauling hay in hot weather.
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LOL...is their any other time?
 
Care to share some of your heat?

Had 36° about 3 nights back. Days have been in the 50s and 60s with rain every 2nd or 3rd day. No sun or heat to dry up the ground enough to get into the fields and no chance of getting hay dry.
 
chevytaHOE5674 said:
Care to share some of your heat?

Had 36° about 3 nights back. Days have been in the 50s and 60s with rain every 2nd or 3rd day. No sun or heat to dry up the ground enough to get into the fields and no chance of getting hay dry.
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I'd be happy to. Going to scare the heck out of 100F today.
 
Next week we are forecast to get Texas hot not Oregon hot. Starting Saturday it goes over 100. Up to 108 on Wednesday. I will be done hauling hay before then. One tractor in the field to load with and one at the stack yard. Neither of the tractors have a cab. By next week when it get real hot I will just be changing irrigation. I will be out doing that before the sun comes up.
 
The hay was off about 20%. Cold nights in May, a number of frosts. Then when it warmed up it went straight to hot. The grass headed out and quit growing. But it is in the stack now. The temperature is just below 100. Too dang hot for am old man. I now retire to the recliner in front of the AC. The other half gets baled tomorrow. I will get to enjoy the heat on Monday.
 
I haven't had any rain that I can remember in the last 2 months. None coming in the forecast. But in the next 5 days or so I will get 4 or 5 inches of water on this field. Being next to the river and having flood irrigation is a wonderful thing. Got the hay off yesterday and opened the tap this morning.

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The hay got baled on Saturday and Sunday. Most of it is in the stack. The last 14 bales are in the far end of the upper field. I need to take the truck and trailer up to haul it and a tractor up there to load it. I would need to drive one up there and walk back about 3/8 of a mile to get the other one. It is over 100 degrees out. I am not walking that far in this heat. That hay can wait until the crack of dawn tomorrow when It will be a lot cooler. But the humidity is at 13% so it is a dry heat. Which means it is still too hot to be anywhere except in front of the AC.

Both of the dogs and both of the cats are all laying in the shade on the concrete. All 4 appear to be dead. My dog wants to star in one of those
ASPCA commercials about dogs suffering in the heat.
 
Dave said:
Next week we are forecast to get Texas hot not Oregon hot. Starting Saturday it goes over 100. Up to 108 on Wednesday. I will be done hauling hay before then. One tractor in the field to load with and one at the stack yard. Neither of the tractors have a cab. By next week when it get real hot I will just be changing irrigation. I will be out doing that before the sun comes up.
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We are suppose to see high temps the 10th -14th. Everything not under irrigation is burning up. If this keeps up will be bringing cows off the range sooner than later. Need some good rain storms.
 
Hit 100 today on the recording thermometer... and the humidity is in the 60% range... it is sweltering out there. We had a little over an inch last Thurs-Sat... it may have saved the corn but with this heat it just sucks it right back out of the ground. We are still in moderate drought conditions from an extremely dry winter and spring with less than 1/2 normal amounts of rain for the year to date right now... The pastures got a little reprieve, but the hayfields were really dry and this only gave them a little drink... might be enough to save some but the new orchard grass field is in dire straits...
Hay done 2-3 weeks early due to dry, no humidity hay making weather but yields were down 25-40% ...
We are supposed to get some pop up storms and such, but nothing from Beryl... it stayed way west of us... maybe it will push some other front this way.
 
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