Last Farm in America to Mow Hay? It's been a wet June...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- We're finally starting to mow our hayfields...the latest start of haying season in 38 years on this farm. Many of our hayfields are still standing in water creating new challenges this season. #familyfarming, #farming, #hay, #baling.
I feel your pain.....We've got water standing in places too.....Good to see Dave out tearing up the hay, 2 months vacation must have done him good....Let's hope the nice weather continues and we all get our hay up. Thanks Dave.
Morning Dave…soggy hay is a pain but the bright side is neighbor Dave is back in the fields!
Yeah it’s good to see him back to normal. We have plenty of tractor work for him this summer.
Plenty of those wet spots around this year. Hopefully the weather cooperates. Good to see neighbor Dave back out in the field. That 488 haybine must be one of the very last ones built.
Thanks. He bought it new just over two years ago. Very few acres on it. We like to use it on alfalfa thats not lodged or twisted.
This year presents a whole new bunch of challenges. I know of one hilltop spring. I don't claim to understand that. Thank you Dave.
Yeah we have wet spots in areas normally dry. It may be August before we can cut everything.
Good morning Dave and Dawn.
We have wet spots in the fields that I have never seen before
We need sun and wind
Good morning Dawn and Dave ☕☕☕
We've cut through so water... Especially in creek bottom when the beaver sneak in..
I just hate making ruts because they come back to haunt you after the grass grows back. Axle breakers…
Wet spots like that, we bale the dry, then roll the wet stuff to dry ground. Time consuming, but you gotta do what you gotta do..
Good afternoon Dave
Sure isn't fun when a field or two is to wet to mow, I can remember we had a year that we had to mow just like that and leave some standing, we did mostly silage bales though, some hay too though but I personally perfer baling hay and feeding hay. Glade to hear your neighbor Dave is able to do field work I hope he takes care.
greetings from Southern Manitoba
I should invest in a wrapper since the round baler is a silage special. That wouldn’t solve the standing water but would allow more flexibility with damp hay.
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn if ya can get one of them Tubeliner bale wrappers they use less plastic then the single bale wrappers
Pretty tough to dry hay when it's swimming. 😳 Hopefully you got it all off. I suppose I should look at the weather and see what the status of our weekend storms is.
We all baled but a few wet rows. 290 square bales and 113 round bales. It’s a start.
That ground moisture is unbelievable! Dry as a bone here…
Not sure which is worse. Are you going to have a hay shortage?
@@Rollinghillsfarmsmn We sell everything, so I thing hay will be short. I’ve heard some are feeding hay now.
I’m only about a quarter of the way through first
I’d love to be that far. Hay must be getting tough.
I haven't started yet. I don't have any fields without standing water even on the higher parts.
Welcome to the ‘wet ground’ club. It’s kind of depressing.
Do you know what year daves haybine is? Looks pretty new for a sickle machine!
21 or 22. Very few acres on it. We love it for alfalfa that isn’t lodged or too tall.
Will you make a water way to get the water off the field?
We have them in some of our fields, installed many years ago. Probably too expensive to build now for the rare years like this one.
Man Ye might need to just make silage bales outa that stuff
Believe it or not we got it baled. Took an extra day to dry and lost a little color but the alfalfa should be good.