- Location
- Cornwall
Nearly finished only 5 more fields
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Hay Making 2021
- Thread starter ffukedfarmer
- Start date
- Location
- Near Colchester
- Location
- South Molton
Rows ready for tomorrow
We got that too - just as I was rowing the last swath. Baler was following and managed 1 bale! Hail stones the size of my thumb nail.12mm in 20mins here today and not on the forecast until this morning
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
Been some hay made in the last week , fields down and baled everywhere , will have sorted the deficit of last spring out , One advantage is most will be decent stuff , now stalks are older you wont get so much sweating in the stacks giving dust and mould
- Location
- West Kent
Managed to dodge the torrential rain yesterday, it missed us fortunately by about a mile. The big black clouds building didn’t do my blood pressure any good.
Very lucky here too. I could see the black clouds tracking there way the other side of Tonbridge.
The wind blew like hell for 10 minutes which made a real mess of the rows. With the rake still in the field we could gather it back in again but the lump rows were a pain to bale.
Had to give up baling at 6.30 as it started getting damp. It's not easy this year.
kiwi pom
Member
- Location
- canterbury NZ
Question time, the term "nice stuff" has been used a lot on this thread, so what exactly does that mean? Do people have it analysed for feed value like you would a pit of silage? Or is it just, looks green, smells nice = nice stuff?
- Location
- South Molton
Rake man was in doing some haylage for me so got him to go on through the hay, baled lightest field last night rest will go today.
- Location
- Near Colchester
Nice and green and dry with some leaves in it still and not dusty or bleached or smelly = nice stuff.
And looks soft/fluffy and not like wire
- Location
- Near Colchester
and it doesn't look like this.
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
we all know what the ewes will go mad for next lambing time , meadow hay , light green, , properly dried without beating the leaves off it near the end ,(prob 4 days)
very high quality feed hay would be almost impossible to make in the uk most years , lucky to get a 5 day weather window , so a young ,high sugar, good clover content hay would be very difficult to dry on most farms ,
most prefer a good meadow hay fed alongside a bit of concentrate as best option , unless you go for wrapped silage / haylage
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That name for that stuff starts with a S and ends with a T and its a big field of it but we have all been there at some point and will againand it doesn't look like this.
Amazed you are allowed a zetor around chipping Norton
Classics earning their keep this week, only around 600 bales off some permanent pasture between us and a neighbour.
- Location
- somerset
we are trying to make some leafy 2nd cut, before most start to head, in the hope that not only does it smell nice, it has a decent %protien. But it isn't going over well, as said, replacement tyre, now up to £2,000, which l find hard to believe, but it is a 'special type' !!!!!
- Location
- somerset
Tyre was £1900, all baled now, different contractor ! From now on, that field is round bales only, we had trouble with the gateways silaging, ended up round baling half of it, first cut, and no chance of a wider gateway, which has 'lovely' stone built gate posts, 1 of which, now needs rebuilding ! All for 38, 6 stringers .
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
Few bits done last few days, couple of very late nights, but all in. Bar a 1 acre paddock to cut 
Strapping overkill . top jobFew bits done last few days, couple of very late nights, but all in. Bar a 1 acre paddock to cut
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
It's not the roads to the farm that are the problem......
It's our mile long track off the road to the farm
