Anyone made any hay yet?

[marcusthehat]

O.K.
Right FT,
its green, its "fresh" it is also poorly baled(from an experienced visual perspective, i.e the density)
So purely from a layman's perspective
What moisture content?
From the centre of a bale after sitting 24 hours.(say)
Almost said "what weight per tonne there"(thinking o when good hay was sold by the ton/tonne, not "per, unspecified weight or moisture content, bale")
cheers
mth
P.S.
Me Da usta speak, disparingly, o "battles" o hay, being slack baled poor hay that ud heat if baled tight.

 

[Jon 3085]

I bet you never seem hay that good in your life , View attachment 538176

This was mine today .It's 40% better than last year .who cares about yield

Make some green hay most years in early June ,good for sheep but too good for horses,and they don't pay anymore for it [emoji849].

 

[Derrick Hughes]

O.K.
Right FT,
its green, its "fresh" it is also poorly baled(from an experienced visual perspective, i.e the density)
So purely from a layman's perspective
What moisture content?
From the centre of a bale after sitting 24 hours.(say)
Almost said "what weight per tonne there"(thinking o when good hay was sold by the ton/tonne, not "per, unspecified weight or moisture content, bale")
cheers
mth
P.S.
Me Da usta speak, disparingly, o "battles" o hay, being slack baled poor hay that ud heat if baled tight.

It's not poorly baled that guy does over 50,000; bales evry year and he as never baled poorly

 

[Henarar]

Baled this at about 4 o'clock this afternoon cut it at 11 yesterday morning

 

[czechmate]

Woo hoo, just finished first cut. 100 ha plus with ageing, ailing 1200, needing work every day (ESP no fun now with temps in the mid 30's). I am so relieved to be done.
Barley ready to start...

 

[nw30]

 

[Clever Dic]

Does that mean its going to be cheap and plentiful? We have made twice as much as normal. I'd guess its the same over the country. I think we'll need a hard winter to sell all of ours! But there'll be less silage here.

Hot dry summers usually result in strong forage prices as grass burns up ,yields get depressed and farmers feed when they should be grazing. Wet summer cheap forage.

 

[bobk]

Woo hoo, just finished first cut. 100 ha plus with ageing, ailing 1200, needing work every day (ESP no fun now with temps in the mid 30's). I am so relieved to be done.
Barley ready to start...

Have you carted them all ?

 

[PuG]

Video for my brother, but cutting last week, 2:25 most exciting part!

 

[4course]

not made hay as decided to wrap some fairly dry haylage as it wouldnt have made hay yesterday,just come in having lead the last of them and have got absolutely drenched in a 20 min cloudburst ,rivers of water everywhere,just had a look and nearly 20mm, so for once looks like it wasnt a wrong decision

 

[milton-95]

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Baled today

last ( half ) bale , nice and green even after a lot of rain earlier in the week.

 

[milton-95]

Don't know what I have done there

Any way baled today,

Last (half) bale, surprisingly green after a lot of rain earlier in the week.

 

[Spudie]

I was worried about baleing a bit green but what I've seen I feel better. Most round here won't go till it's shot to hell

 

[Vincent]

Cut another small bit yesterday. It seems fairly dry in itself so should make quick.

 

[v8willy]

First bit we baled this year, about half the usual crop.

 

[PuG]

assuming not vutting dead standing grass then colour is good as long as its sufficiently wilted, shows its not been done to death - and to some extent picking it with the baler tends to dry the last few bits going into the chamber. Upto 305 hay bales, another 50 to go but having break for couple of days.

 

[GreenerGrass]

First bit we baled this year, about half the usual crop.

Glad you said that. Cut here last week and got the same bales as last year (albeit cut 3 weeks earlier this year), but cut an extra 30% of ground to get them No doubt it's good stuff and it's in the barn, but disappointed.

 

[Clever Dic]

Liking my new baler bought for hay.

 

[rob1]

Liking my new baler bought for hay.View attachment 541024

looks good what size bale is that ?

 

[bobk]

looks good what size bale is that ?

80 x 47 , do you want one ?