I am a hay farmer in MI too, life has never been easier since i got a tedder, bascially i can cut 1 day, ted the next and rake on 3rd or 4th day along with baling. Makes a much nicer looking product too
Hay farmer in northern Michigan also I got a hay tedder this year it has been worth the money . Mite not use it on every field but most it makes a guys life alot easier.
You need a Tedder rake for here in Michigan. Be the best money you spend making hay. I grew up using that baler. I was a dairy Farmer. Now I feel old. I'm from the thumb.
Don't get discouraged. My dad would look at the morning dew and animal behavior. If there is no dew. Noon rain. If the cows flik their ears. Take account to the time of day. The barometric pressure is dropping. It is the final function of a rain storm. But, that took decades to build. He grew up on a tobacco farm. I learned at 7 to 8 years old. By 9 years old. I was in charge of hay cutting, baling, and loading trailers. I also had the charge of our storage barns. If I got caught by the rain. I would have to hunt and forage the entire fall and winter. You are doing your best, and commend you for it. I have abandoned those practices. I live in the city, for now. I also miss living the way free men, as yourself does. Keep your head up. You will make it. Determination is a virtue
might look into finding an old mecanical bale elevator hooked to the side of a truck or wagon and picked up bale raised it up on a chain then dropped it into the truck to be stacked by a guy in the bed not used much now but 30 or 40 yrs ago might look around will speed things up a lot
Tarps, tarps and more tarps. Always grease daily, oil the chains periodically, that's a good baler. As a few have stated, look into investing into a tedder. Will make you life a lot easier when it comes to haying. Did I mention tarps? TARPS!! Get that trailer rebuilt too, make the floor wide enough so you can stack properly too. Go 1 bale length of the trailer on one side, 2 bales goes across. Next layer, go opposite sides, this is "brick layering" or, "tieing in the bales" as we called it. Don't ever beat yourself up over "decisions", farming is always a 50/50 no matter. We've had storms just pop up when they weren't calling for rain at all. Any bales that got wet, we also used rock salt on them, helped them "cure" without literately burning up. Yea, don't feed moldy hay to horses, will kill them. Cattle and other livestock, won't bother them. Great video, chin up and cheers :)
I really appreciate what you are going through. We have the same struggles here in north central PA. 2018 was next to impossible to make hay and 2019 wasn't much better. After a late start this year, the weather finally gave us 3 or 4 days in a row with no rain. We juggle hay making with a full time job off the farm which really makes every small decision critical! I have an old Owatonna 9' "Haymaster" mower-conditioner which still keeps on going after about 50 years with some minor repairs! I paid $400 for it in 1992. I previously cut my hay with a John Deere No. 5 sickle bar. I use the No. 5 sickle bar now on our SC Case to trim under the electric fence and it still works very well for that job. I have considered buying a hay tedder but haven't financially justified it yet. I keep trying to extend the grazing season as long as possible. Any hay that doesn't get made here gets grazed in the fall by our 14 cows (and they eat a lot!!). We "bale graze" with purchased round bales in the winter ($20 each around here) and feed whatever small square bales we were able to make. We still run short of forage by late winter. I totally agree that getting in 100 bales with no rain is a great accomplishment! Keep the faith - You are doing a great job and if we didn't love doing this stuff we wouldn't be doing it!!
Lying weather apps have ruined many of my plans too! Brings back memories of throwing bales when I was a kid on my brother in law's family dairy farm. The reward was a trip to the lake when the work was done :-). Go dance in the rain with your kid and thank God that He is going to give you victory over raindrops :-)
Just rebuilt a Older Hay Wagon last year myself.. Rough cut oak for deck and Old Air Plane Tires . Yes we had used Plain Tires Because the Ply of the Tire is so High, They will Never be or go Flat !! We love these types of Tires and use them on just about everything around here ... Thank You Sir ...
You mentioned having trouble with the knotters. I have that same baler. If the knot hangs on the bill hook make sure the knife arm rubs the bill hook to wipe the knot off. If it doesn't bend it till it does. Also keep the knife sharp. Been a bad year for hay. Good luck.
I think you made the right decision. Taking the time to grease well it IMO always the best decision. Remember to keep those knives sharp. I am surprised that you don't bale right onto your wagon it saves so much time. As we both know time is something we don't always have. A good sturdy hay wagon is so important, it can be used for so many things. You can always use the rained on stuff for bedding.
You and your community should invest in home weather stations, and put them on the wunderground network. That might help with getting better, local weather conditions.
In the past when weather changed on me I’ve baled hay a little green and left it on trailer then when it cleared up I took bales back out broke them open and dried it out and rebased it
Maybe try haybale gardening with wats left on the field. As for weather reporting try yr.no they are Norwegian based but free and the most accurate ive found anywhere in the world
It's not like meteorology is a science or anything.....LOL! You can't count on the weather to cooperate. You did everything to the best of your ability. Happy that you got those 35 bales in when you did. Many blessings from NE Missouri!
I know all equipment is a huge decision and investment. Unlike a lot of farming channels on youtube we too do things similar as your family with older equipment. For years we played the weather game and never had good hay for selling to others. Our cows are not picky and the pigs used up anything bad or rained on. We looked into a crimper, tried a John Deere Haybine with the roller ( which always plugged up), then finally bought a 2 basket Tedder. All our of hay took avg 4-5 days before that and now we can do it in 2-3 days. Im in the same general area as you so I can relate to the Michigan weather. Check out our tedder on my youtube channel. Now is a good time to pick one up as the dealers are hard up for sales. Cash discount perhaps :) Lowes can get you a tax exempt account set up for your farm use items as well so you save a little cash on that decking material. Best of luck for the rest of the season on this cloudy and rainy week that we too were planning on making hay.
We have received 4inches of rain in the last week, so far 2 inches today. A lot of the low ground which is our areas primary hayfields is now underwater again. This year has just been bad for hay and most other crops.
I know exactly how you feel. (As a friend of mine says, "I'm smellin what you're steppin in"). Our hay here in Northeast Nebraska, was crap. Rain after rain. High humidity in between. No chance of a second cutting. I just turned the horses out on it. There is always next year. MB BAR RANCH
I baled in mid September before and had dry weather, baled- opened some bales and had dust all through. Ground had moisture.Hauled all the bales to the compost. Second cut end of August at the latest. If not brush hog it.
Hard to design a system away from hay. Haylage takes more land and animals to pay off. Grazing your land and buying in winter feed is expensive and vulnerable to drought. Turning the stuff into pellets is easier than you'd think but still takes space and some money. Anyway, nice video and nice shirt.
A little trick I do is when you take and the hay gets damp the next morning is to turn your wind rows over with the rake agin just enough to point the inside of the wind row facing out give it a hour or so and usually your good to go
We had the hay season from hell...too long of a story to tell but we persevered and have most of it in the barn. We will have enough for at least two years.
You could do with finding an old flat-8 collector to run behind your baler. It would save you a lot of time loading up and bringing in your hay. Try farm auctions.
Losing a hay crop happens If it was mine, the hay that you didn't get to would get baled later and be stored for garden mulch. Next spring, plant seed potatoes and cover that space with crappy hay. A couple of blue tarps would help to keep the tractor and baler dry.
Look at raking the hay and having it chopped for bedding, if you need the bedding. OR see if the county would buy it for their road construction projects.
You did all you could do with the information you had. You probably know this but it is a good idea to get the hay out of the bailer since it got rained on to keep from making a mess and possibly bending a needle when you go back to bailing. It has also already been stated but you would save time and your back if you can direct stack on the wagon. Keep up the good work and great videos!!!!!!
There is a band called cadilac sky. They have a song called cant truat the weatherman. They have an album called blind man walking. You should check them out. Christian bluegrass.
I have a question about that. Will salting the floor help with condensation on the concrete barn floor. One area of our barn always has bad bales that are in contact with the floor. Only that area, no roof leak, no rain, baled right. Only this dry floor in an old hip roof barn. Usually just reserve the area for parking equipment but in a weather race it will hold 6 stack wagons deep unloaded directly so it's easy to fill faster than the loft or back room.
@@mommymilestones we always stack our square bales on pallets...you can pick them up for free from most lumber yards, farm stores etc. Round bales we put inside and leave on the floor...not much waste.
If it is rained on. It gets sugars washed out. Stop racking your roes. Let it set for a day. Then run it into sub rows. Day 3. Run slowly into final rows. Let set 1 day. Even on a cloudy week. This is what has worked for me.
My dad would've had the kids gathering bales while he baled. They're better all together and tarped in the field than half in the barn and half in the rain.
DO NOT PUT into the barn until a week after the slight wet bales cools down after heating (cause barn fires) when compacted as bales as bacteria heats up the compacted hay, as it composting. Stack the bales for drying in the field.
With only 75 bales they are not stacked more than 2 high on the top of the stack. Not enough to cause a fire issue as they heat up over the next week or two. It is only when you have a huge stack with wet hay in the middle that it becomes an issue
@@SSLFamilyDad An old neighbour of mine barn went on fire with wet hay, that his kids brought in too early (I warned them not bring it in and they ignored me), and they stacked the wet bales next to dry bales, that was saved a month earlier. The whole thing went up on fire the following day. They pulled out the burning hay out into the green wet fields, and it still smouldering a few days later and with rain onto of it. They lost the barn and hay.
We don't have that much problem with it down here but different areas I know makes a big difference evidently ya'll must be loaded with rain we had kin around paupau years ago it was like here thanks anyway
Hay making is a constant challenge. This is why some people buy hay. You cannot plan and think you will get what you did last year. Good years and bad years. Why the Bible talks about huge harvest times and times of terrible famine. We bought a Tedder to deal with the rainfall issue. One friend tendered his fields seven times on year. You have a high moisture content. You could bale it, but you have to leave in the field to dry. It doesn’t always mold.
Thank you for your prayers for my granddaughter Lexi. They had to take her to a different hospital, the first one did nothing for her. They have her in psych ward of the local childrens hospital now. They have her on lockdown because the voices were telling her to hurt herself and others. Her mom isn't handling that too well, since it means she can't stay with her, and can only see her one hour a day. Tests say her brain is physically fine, no tumors or anything. So they are concentrating on getting her meds right. Please continue praying for her. She told her mom that an angel told her not to be afraid, that the voices weren't real.
Some you win, some you loose. I lost about 25 acres of hay this year because of weather or baler problems. We baled the ruined hay and is now rotting In the corner of a field.
We used to say the hay was sour. You are right to not feed it to the animals. Too bad it got wet. One time our barn combusted because of the heat and humidity from the hay. Sorry I don't know the answer. Hope someone else can help you.
I know you didn't need the rain but here in El Paso we need rain so badly. I think for the year it's below 5 or 6 inches and that's the Airport reading of course. Most areas haven't received any at all.
Idk but I think it's little too late for making hay in this time of year...lol but nice lookin old baler and tractor, and last but not least cute little girl, she seems funny...lol but I was about to say, insteading of trying to make second cutting which sides the weather hasn't been cooperating, why don't you guys just pasture your horses on that instead? Without worrying about the rain as much. But inerways good video.
Did you know there are professional weather services specifically for farmers? They give you more informations and also tell you how sure they are that there will be no rain. They will not be free but it might be worth it. I would like to recommend a company but since I'm from germany I don't know the right terms in english to find US-Sites. Maybe speak to some other farmers about that? I have never used these myself but I have seen people use it and there must be a reason they pay for it.
Getting a kick out of your new pup. More of a shadow to you than the other one. We need the rain, but I'm sorry that you are probably going to lose some nice hay.
Coming from someone who cuts hay in humid climates. My advice is look into a hay tedder. Will make drying hay easier.
I am a hay farmer in MI too, life has never been easier since i got a tedder, bascially i can cut 1 day, ted the next and rake on 3rd or 4th day along with baling. Makes a much nicer looking product too
Hay farmer in northern Michigan also I got a hay tedder this year it has been worth the money . Mite not use it on every field but most it makes a guys life alot easier.
You need a Tedder rake for here in Michigan. Be the best money you spend making hay. I grew up using that baler. I was a dairy Farmer. Now I feel old. I'm from the thumb.
Don't get discouraged. My dad would look at the morning dew and animal behavior. If there is no dew. Noon rain. If the cows flik their ears. Take account to the time of day. The barometric pressure is dropping. It is the final function of a rain storm. But, that took decades to build. He grew up on a tobacco farm. I learned at 7 to 8 years old. By 9 years old. I was in charge of hay cutting, baling, and loading trailers. I also had the charge of our storage barns. If I got caught by the rain. I would have to hunt and forage the entire fall and winter.
You are doing your best, and commend you for it. I have abandoned those practices. I live in the city, for now. I also miss living the way free men, as yourself does.
Keep your head up. You will make it. Determination is a virtue
Don't beat yourself up over this, you did the best you could do and that's all you can do. Thumbs up !
I agree buddy. We both have crazy weather. It does what it wants. Thanks for having me over😁
I live in southern North Carolina. Humidity and unpredictable weather is just a part of life here too. Hope you the best.
Throw salt on the bales it will help draw the moisture out and help keep them from heating
Done it many times
might look into finding an old mecanical bale elevator hooked to the side of a truck or wagon and picked up bale raised it up on a chain then dropped it into the truck to be stacked by a guy in the bed not used much now but 30 or 40 yrs ago might look around will speed things up a lot
Tarps, tarps and more tarps. Always grease daily, oil the chains periodically, that's a good baler. As a few have stated, look into investing into a tedder. Will make you life a lot easier when it comes to haying. Did I mention tarps? TARPS!! Get that trailer rebuilt too, make the floor wide enough so you can stack properly too. Go 1 bale length of the trailer on one side, 2 bales goes across. Next layer, go opposite sides, this is "brick layering" or, "tieing in the bales" as we called it. Don't ever beat yourself up over "decisions", farming is always a 50/50 no matter. We've had storms just pop up when they weren't calling for rain at all. Any bales that got wet, we also used rock salt on them, helped them "cure" without literately burning up. Yea, don't feed moldy hay to horses, will kill them. Cattle and other livestock, won't bother them. Great video, chin up and cheers :)
I really appreciate what you are going through. We have the same struggles here in north central PA. 2018 was next to impossible to make hay and 2019 wasn't much better. After a late start this year, the weather finally gave us 3 or 4 days in a row with no rain. We juggle hay making with a full time job off the farm which really makes every small decision critical! I have an old Owatonna 9' "Haymaster" mower-conditioner which still keeps on going after about 50 years with some minor repairs! I paid $400 for it in 1992. I previously cut my hay with a John Deere No. 5 sickle bar. I use the No. 5 sickle bar now on our SC Case to trim under the electric fence and it still works very well for that job. I have considered buying a hay tedder but haven't financially justified it yet. I keep trying to extend the grazing season as long as possible. Any hay that doesn't get made here gets grazed in the fall by our 14 cows (and they eat a lot!!). We "bale graze" with purchased round bales in the winter ($20 each around here) and feed whatever small square bales we were able to make. We still run short of forage by late winter. I totally agree that getting in 100 bales with no rain is a great accomplishment! Keep the faith - You are doing a great job and if we didn't love doing this stuff we wouldn't be doing it!!
Oh yes and Lisa is becoming quite the farm girl, lifting bales and even the flannel shirt. You go girl!
Lying weather apps have ruined many of my plans too! Brings back memories of throwing bales when I was a kid on my brother in law's family dairy farm. The reward was a trip to the lake when the work was done :-). Go dance in the rain with your kid and thank God that He is going to give you victory over raindrops :-)
Just rebuilt a Older Hay Wagon last year myself.. Rough cut oak for deck and Old Air Plane Tires . Yes we had used Plain Tires Because the Ply of the Tire is so High, They will Never be or go Flat !! We love these types of Tires and use them on just about everything around here ... Thank You Sir ...
Have to love the weather in Michigan!!!!
You mentioned having trouble with the knotters. I have that same baler. If the knot hangs on the bill hook make sure the knife arm rubs the bill hook to wipe the knot off. If it doesn't bend it till it does. Also keep the knife sharp. Been a bad year for hay. Good luck.
I'll check that thanks!
Maybe your supposed to try the Ruth Stout gardening method? But I hope the hay will not mold
Great video! Loved to see how to cut and bale and how those machines work. So interesting. Prayers nag for dry so you can finish.
I think you made the right decision. Taking the time to grease well it IMO always the best decision. Remember to keep those knives sharp. I am surprised that you don't bale right onto your wagon it saves so much time. As we both know time is something we don't always have. A good sturdy hay wagon is so important, it can be used for so many things. You can always use the rained on stuff for bedding.
Submanca pretty sure he doesn’t have a wagon
@@baileysconstruction7898 Pretty sure he does.
Weather has been rough this year. Are biggest thing we need is a fence because our fruit trees are getting eaten by deer.
Where did you get the hay baler?
Hey Todd - you tried brother - well done! - wish I was I lived a bit closer to give you a hand. Thanks for the channel 😀🇨🇦
Sorry for your frustrations....seems to me a build for next near would be a pole barn to hold hay and tractor?! Blessings.
He has already.
A lean to for the equpment and trailer perhaps! Your doing a great job. Farming! Lol
You and your community should invest in home weather stations, and put them on the wunderground network. That might help with getting better, local weather conditions.
In the past when weather changed on me I’ve baled hay a little green and left it on trailer then when it cleared up I took bales back out broke them open and dried it out and rebased it
Maybe try haybale gardening with wats left on the field. As for weather reporting try yr.no they are Norwegian based but free and the most accurate ive found anywhere in the world
It's not like meteorology is a science or anything.....LOL! You can't count on the weather to cooperate. You did everything to the best of your ability. Happy that you got those 35 bales in when you did. Many blessings from NE Missouri!
I know all equipment is a huge decision and investment. Unlike a lot of farming channels on youtube we too do things similar as your family with older equipment. For years we played the weather game and never had good hay for selling to others. Our cows are not picky and the pigs used up anything bad or rained on. We looked into a crimper, tried a John Deere Haybine with the roller ( which always plugged up), then finally bought a 2 basket Tedder. All our of hay took avg 4-5 days before that and now we can do it in 2-3 days. Im in the same general area as you so I can relate to the Michigan weather. Check out our tedder on my youtube channel. Now is a good time to pick one up as the dealers are hard up for sales. Cash discount perhaps :) Lowes can get you a tax exempt account set up for your farm use items as well so you save a little cash on that decking material. Best of luck for the rest of the season on this cloudy and rainy week that we too were planning on making hay.
We have received 4inches of rain in the last week, so far 2 inches today. A lot of the low ground which is our areas primary hayfields is now underwater again. This year has just been bad for hay and most other crops.
It has truly been a difficult year
I know exactly how you feel. (As a friend of mine says, "I'm smellin what you're steppin in"). Our hay here in Northeast Nebraska, was crap. Rain after rain. High humidity in between. No chance of a second cutting. I just turned the horses out on it. There is always next year.
MB BAR RANCH
I was wondering how you made out in the rain storm that went through Michigan.
Loved the Summer "pop up". And Reni sure loves helping. Sorry about the rain ☹️. Great video though 👍
Wooden deck on hay wagon seems fine.
Hardly even looks *BROKEn* in yet!!!
;-)
I baled in mid September before and had dry weather, baled- opened some bales and had dust all through. Ground had moisture.Hauled all the bales to the compost. Second cut end of August at the latest. If not brush hog it.
Hard to design a system away from hay. Haylage takes more land and animals to pay off. Grazing your land and buying in winter feed is expensive and vulnerable to drought. Turning the stuff into pellets is easier than you'd think but still takes space and some money. Anyway, nice video and nice shirt.
A little trick I do is when you take and the hay gets damp the next morning is to turn your wind rows over with the rake agin just enough to point the inside of the wind row facing out give it a hour or so and usually your good to go
Put a row down the center then the ones on the side, u can almost stack the trailer from the ground
We had the hay season from hell...too long of a story to tell but we persevered and have most of it in the barn. We will have enough for at least two years.
You could do with finding an old flat-8 collector to run behind your baler. It would save you a lot of time loading up and bringing in your hay. Try farm auctions.
Good video todd thanks for sharing
Meteorology, what a racket, one of the few "professions" that is never affected by getting it wrong!
Can't say never. Lots of jr meteorologists never make chief. One of our local affiliates fired a chief for inaccuracies.
Meteorology & Politics....
Your decision with the hay was the best....trusting George, that was a bad one lol
Losing a hay crop happens If it was mine, the hay that you didn't get to would get baled later and be stored for garden mulch. Next spring, plant seed potatoes and cover that space with crappy hay. A couple of blue tarps would help to keep the tractor and baler dry.
Love life, And due your best is all that any one can ask.
awesome as always
Oh Todd, just remember Matthew 5:45! Our God is in control. That's going to be the way to bale when you get the hay rack fixed!
Excited you have a hay wagon now. That little equipment/utility trailer won't hold a candle to that hay wagon once you get it into shape.
U gotta learn and every year is different, best adverage shots
Have you ever taken your old tractor up to the bridge for the drive across?
All we can do is be thankful for what we do get.
Look at raking the hay and having it chopped for bedding, if you need the bedding. OR see if the county would buy it for their road construction projects.
Happy Thanksgiving
You did all you could do with the information you had. You probably know this but it is a good idea to get the hay out of the bailer since it got rained on to keep from making a mess and possibly bending a needle when you go back to bailing. It has also already been stated but you would save time and your back if you can direct stack on the wagon. Keep up the good work and great videos!!!!!!
You need to invest in a hay Tedder and a rotary rake and you won't have them problems.
There is a band called cadilac sky. They have a song called cant truat the weatherman.
They have an album called blind man walking. You should check them out. Christian bluegrass.
Sounds like my kind of music!
@@SSLFamilyDadcool
When you bale hay with a little moisture salt it heavy when you put it in the barn and it won't mold...we've done it for over fifty years.
I have a question about that. Will salting the floor help with condensation on the concrete barn floor. One area of our barn always has bad bales that are in contact with the floor. Only that area, no roof leak, no rain, baled right. Only this dry floor in an old hip roof barn. Usually just reserve the area for parking equipment but in a weather race it will hold 6 stack wagons deep unloaded directly so it's easy to fill faster than the loft or back room.
@@mommymilestones we always stack our square bales on pallets...you can pick them up for free from most lumber yards, farm stores etc. Round bales we put inside and leave on the floor...not much waste.
If it is rained on. It gets sugars washed out.
Stop racking your roes. Let it set for a day. Then run it into sub rows. Day 3. Run slowly into final rows. Let set 1 day. Even on a cloudy week. This is what has worked for me.
That is one big field
My dad would've had the kids gathering bales while he baled. They're better all together and tarped in the field than half in the barn and half in the rain.
DO NOT PUT into the barn until a week after the slight wet bales cools down after heating (cause barn fires) when compacted as bales as bacteria heats up the compacted hay, as it composting. Stack the bales for drying in the field.
With only 75 bales they are not stacked more than 2 high on the top of the stack. Not enough to cause a fire issue as they heat up over the next week or two. It is only when you have a huge stack with wet hay in the middle that it becomes an issue
@@SSLFamilyDad An old neighbour of mine barn went on fire with wet hay, that his kids brought in too early (I warned them not bring it in and they ignored me), and they stacked the wet bales next to dry bales, that was saved a month earlier. The whole thing went up on fire the following day. They pulled out the burning hay out into the green wet fields, and it still smouldering a few days later and with rain onto of it. They lost the barn and hay.
What about a hay tedder it'll dry it out on a dry day
William Beshears Sr that’s what we use!
We don't have that much problem with it down here but different areas I know makes a big difference evidently ya'll must be loaded with rain we had kin around paupau years ago it was like here thanks anyway
Find a tether and don’t beat yourself up. It has happened to the best of us especially in 2019
Hay making is a constant challenge. This is why some people buy hay. You cannot plan and think you will get what you did last year. Good years and bad years. Why the Bible talks about huge harvest times and times of terrible famine. We bought a Tedder to deal with the rainfall issue. One friend tendered his fields seven times on year. You have a high moisture content. You could bale it, but you have to leave in the field to dry. It doesn’t always mold.
That wet tough hay will self combust if too wet, not just mold, be careful stacking in the barn
Thank you for your prayers for my granddaughter Lexi. They had to take her to a different hospital, the first one did nothing for her. They have her in psych ward of the local childrens hospital now. They have her on lockdown because the voices were telling her to hurt herself and others. Her mom isn't handling that too well, since it means she can't stay with her, and can only see her one hour a day. Tests say her brain is physically fine, no tumors or anything. So they are concentrating on getting her meds right. Please continue praying for her. She told her mom that an angel told her not to be afraid, that the voices weren't real.
Your tractor seatback is upside down
Some you win, some you loose. I lost about 25 acres of hay this year because of weather or baler problems. We baled the ruined hay and is now rotting In the corner of a field.
IT just hurts my soul to have to waste hay, we ended up saving what got rained on but it will only be good for the pigs
@@SSLFamilyDad yeah, unfortunately ours was for horses as we don't have any other livestock 😣
We used to say the hay was sour. You are right to not feed it to the animals. Too bad it got wet. One time our barn combusted because of the heat and humidity from the hay. Sorry I don't know the answer. Hope someone else can help you.
Need to put a homemade hay preservative sprayer on your baler I did and works great takes the stress out of haying
Compost it😁
Try using weather live pro. It's a pretty accurate app
Been happening to us all year in Mt. Pleasant. Left 200 bales in the field and brush hogged them.
I know you didn't need the rain but here in El Paso we need rain so badly. I think for the year it's below 5 or 6 inches and that's the Airport reading of course. Most areas haven't received any at all.
Idk but I think it's little too late for making hay in this time of year...lol but nice lookin old baler and tractor, and last but not least cute little girl, she seems funny...lol but I was about to say, insteading of trying to make second cutting which sides the weather hasn't been cooperating, why don't you guys just pasture your horses on that instead? Without worrying about the rain as much. But inerways good video.
Did you know there are professional weather services specifically for farmers?
They give you more informations and also tell you how sure they are that there will be no rain.
They will not be free but it might be worth it.
I would like to recommend a company but since I'm from germany I don't know the right terms in english to find US-Sites. Maybe speak to some other farmers about that?
I have never used these myself but I have seen people use it and there must be a reason they pay for it.
Getting a kick out of your new pup. More of a shadow to you than the other one. We need the rain, but I'm sorry that you are probably going to lose some nice hay.
bale it and feed it ASAP let your dry hay sit
Proverbs 3: 3-8
Use an app called “weather bug”
Its not wet. Its just not dry. Lol
The hay is the inbetweener in the twilight zone.
@@RealLimerickman i was thinking hay is like your mother inlaw. You love her but she gets on your nerves.
The surprise animal is a pony, you went ahead and got a pony didn't you?
no more horses! lol
@@SSLFamilyDad But a pony isn't a horse its a pony.
That is weeds, hay is green, not brown. You can't bale wet weeds and expect animals to eat it.
He admitted it was a poor growth. Bedding is needed all winter in addition to food.
I bet they are getting a cow