Anyone made any hay yet?

[Derrick Hughes]

Fin ished
Thank God

 

[FG.]

Finished last 30 ac of first cut hay Monday.
Started to spit with rain as I was finishing, but managed to get it loaded before it started chucking it down.
Just second cut rye grass to battle with.
It's been a bit a challenge this year with the rather unpredictable weather.
I feel for anyone still struggling to make hay.

 

[Goweresque]

Anyone going for some late August hay in this promised heatwave?

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

Anyone going for some late August hay in this promised heatwave?

Yes, be making into September for sure. All our wild flower meadow customers to go yet. Got about 40ac on the floor in what feels like 70 different fields atm. Can't give it away this year, some will just be dumped to rot. Might try and do some nice 2nd cut haylage next month.

 

[farmerm]

Anyone going for some late August hay in this promised heatwave?

I dropped 7ac on Monday..... ridge and furrow land, I must be mad

 

[Boohoo]

If the heatwave lasts 3 weeks I might risk a few bales without wrap

 

[Spuddler]

Cut my last bit for this year on Tuesday, not as straw like as I thought it was going to be.

 

[Red Fred]

10 acres down here for small bales for my sheep hay ladies. Should be ready Saturday in time to get a good view of the air show

 

[X344chap]

9 acres of permanent pasture to cut for silage round the borders and hay the rest if possible - ground is saturated.
Rain today forecast then 4 dry days before the rain starts again on Tuesday 27th.

What heatwave?

 

[rob1]

10 acres down here for small bales for my sheep hay ladies. Should be ready Saturday in time to get a good view of the air show

Air show's next week isnt it ? hope so or my mrs is going to be mad at me

 

[Red Fred]

Air show's next week isnt it ? hope so or my mrs is going to be mad at me

Good job you posted that! I was getting ready for this weekend for some reason. I think it is because it was always on the same weekend as the steam fair in previous years. The air show looks a bit more interesting this year with more vintage stuff so I might go and see it properly for once.

 

[rob1]

Good job you posted that! I was getting ready for this weekend for some reason. I think it is because it was always on the same weekend as the steam fair in previous years. The air show looks a bit more interesting this year with more vintage stuff so I might go and see it properly for once.

best rent a boat and come in by sea, the crowds are usually huge, we are going down to our flat, I aim to arrive in the middle of the night to avoid the queues on the A338

 

[Hurdle bunter]

Anyone going for some late August hay in this promised heatwave?

Dropped 12ac on Monday and a farting little 2ac patch (the last)on Tuesday for an estate we’ve done 90 odd acres on, the 2ac is one of the owners wife’s horse patches so is abit of a sweetener and is to be done in idiot bricks, the 12ac will be quadrantsView attachment 829175

 

[farmerm]

Cut my last bit for this year on Tuesday, not as straw like as I thought it was going to be.

Wish mine was a bit more straw like, it would ted better and dry faster. The thicker areas are like marshmallow and it just wants to flump back down on itself before the wind can blow through it.

 

[Tomr10]

Diversifying into eggs

 

[organicguy]

Anyone going for some late August hay in this promised heatwave?

Mowing next door this week on first cut!

 

[Hurdle bunter]

getting there