- Location
- Ceredigion
Cut a bit more
Hay Making 2021
- Thread starter ffukedfarmer
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glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
- Location
- South Molton
Management strategy
- Location
- somerset
heavy rain friday, or so they say, it will alter 10 times between now and baling time !
looks a nice green colour, not gone past it, quality stuff'
we will be cutting 15 acres 2nd cut, next week, not quite ready yet.
But if we paid £85/ton last year, for av hay, what will it be this year ? Hay, well made, much less than that, would be cheaper to buy delivered, no hassle with weather, turning, baling and hauling.
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glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
- Location
- somerset
lucerne, or red clover hay, would be great, but all depends on how long it takes to dry, and how little you can turn it.Management strategy
not sure the UK has the right weather for it, but would certainly be an excellent ingredient in TMR, barn dried perhaps ?
If they start taxing N fert, as seems likely, imported protien is a big no no, on the climate change zealots, hit list, home grown protien, is going to become increasingly important.
So @Sid , as an organic farmer, where does your protien come from, and what's the organic aim, for home grown. Protien costs, for organic, must be expensive, and rising, so all organic farmers must be looking at alternatives, other than the obvious, clover, a chance to spread organics, into conventional.
- Location
- South Molton
Do enlighten us to which button you have to push for that.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
- Location
- South Molton
Wouldn't bother with lucerne or red clover hay.
Haylage or silage would fine
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Baled some more small bales Saturday afternoon as thunderstorms forecast for Sunday. Didn’t rain. Hay could have done with another day but it’s OK.
Baling another 4 acres of meadow hay this afternoon. Dry as snuff. Sweaty job hand stacking in shed.
Baling another 4 acres of meadow hay this afternoon. Dry as snuff. Sweaty job hand stacking in shed.
- Location
- Mid Wales
Pulled Jones out of retirement of at least 6 years
Carried 150 odd in the heat today with just two of us.
Carried 150 odd in the heat today with just two of us.
looking at those bales i can see why you retiered it!
Wouldn’t be very good in 56’s
they wouldnt be any good!
800 little ones with the trusty welger
- Location
- Mid Wales
Sheep will eat it just the same
What do you think is wrong with them?
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OOH , that's cruel .
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Ryegrass hay made in early June blowing a geyser now. Don’t think it wise to put any more on top of it.
- Location
- Shropshire
Horrible creatures
