Hay making 2020

essexpete

Member
Location
Essex
My yields have varied from average to well below, was raking up this field tonight and wondering whether it is worth the bother of bringing the baler down here.

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nice view though, no fence between me and the water, no inputs at all on this land, not even allowed clover.

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Why not clover ffs? One of the established tennants by Hanningfield res uses fertiliser.
 

powerontheland

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Hockley Essex
Cut, baled and stacked just under 80 acres of hay this week over 4 different locations thr furthest 30 miles away. Nothing else cut yet and everything of mine under cover!!
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Simon Chiles

DD Moderator
What do those bales average in weight?

Bales or packs? Those photos are of bale packs, either one or two in the squeezer.
I haven’t weighed a bale this year, they’re not very heavy as it has been so dry. The moisture meter on the baler hasn’t gone above 12% and it says the average is 8%, however as it can’t read lower than 8% I suspect they are dryer than that. Where we’ve had the odd broken bale there seems to be a huge amount of grass in each one which probably hasn’t helped the numbers.
 

glasshouse

Member
Location
lothians
Turned it all this morning, forecast dry all day.
Started rowing up at 12.30
Put baler on, baled 6 bales and the heavens opened.
😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
About 3 the sun and wind got up, rowed it again and got baling about 5
Only two more fields to go
 

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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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