Hay making 2020

brigadoon

Member
Location
Galloway
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Just happy to see it in the shed - baled just before rain and catchy forecast so loose stow in shed till we see if it smokes!
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4course

Member
Location
north yorks
got caught in a light shower yesterday just enough to stop us ,same as last friday ,3-4 rows left to bale and not quite able to get all the little bales on to trailers so a few on the shed floor to be rolled for a couple of days. Been dry overnight and a sunny start to the day so with luck will get the rest around lunchtime before we gather up the outside rows into wrapped rounds.Am happy with the quality and the final number of bales of hay/haylage .This year all 3 lots i.e 1st cut meadow 1st cut fallow and the 2nd cut following may silage/haylage have come together meaning a few days of hard graft though ive been telling the handlers its like going to the gym but getting paid for it and the exercise is good for them!!
 

Derrick Hughes

Member
Location
Ceredigion
Forecast is all over the shop. Rained yesterday here but not enough to stop us clearing the fields . Silage and Haylage .Goodbye hay . No way in a million years would you make hay here this week
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Grassman

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Location
Derbyshire

4course

Member
Location
north yorks
Forecast for my area yesterday was fine. It rained .
Forecast for my area today was rain. It was fine!
thankfully ours is in the shed though we did get caught out in a shower so have had some little bales to roll round in the shed for a couple of days. can only say that you cant take a blind bit of notice of the forecasts and as my earlier post you can only go( despite the technology at the disposal of the forecasters) on the aches in the bones and the behaviour of the animals around you. now weve finished hay will soon be looking to start w b harvest which will be influenced in part by how high the swallows are flying to catch the food for their brood
 

Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
perhaps its the way the photos come across - but Ive seen very little of what I would deem 'good' cloured hay? Everything looks very brown and weathered? Apologies if that observation cheeses of any of the posters
Mine is definitely on the dead side, it is July now, couldn't cut before the 15th... cut last Sunday, tedded once then raked, ther is some green in it if you look closely, it will look green when laid on snow.
 

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