- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Hay making 2022
- Thread starter carbonfibre farmer
- Start date
- Location
- North Wiltshire
Good hay, too much concentrate and lack of use = steamers, soakers, restricted grazing and I've notice a box with "calm-u-down" powder on one of the liveries shelf.
All wants making in mid/July when the stuffings gone out of, but who's brave enough to wait till then, when you have a lot to do
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Good idea. Here are mine:
Bit of a bugger getting by that Staunton!
Far too many times when the weather hasn’t been good in June, so hay making time happens in July, I have jumped off the hay baler, straight onto the Combine.Good hay, too much concentrate and lack of use = steamers, soakers, restricted grazing and I've notice a box with "calm-u-down" powder on one of the liveries shelf.
All wants making in mid/July when the stuffings gone out of, but who's brave enough to wait till then, when you have a lot to do
- Location
- Limousin, France
No hay making for the last 5 days.Over 90mm of rain has seen to that.
Thats why I gave up growing winter barley
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
I like both Winter Barley and Winter Linseed because 2/3rds of Harvest is done in July before its starts pissing it down in August for the wheat.
I also like the idea that @le bon paysan can usually take most of August off for holiday time.
August is/used to be so busy that I never actually knew where it went!
It would be so nice to actually enjoy doing something that ordinary people do. Go to a cricket match or something like The Big Feastival, without feeling guilty that I should be working.
Even nicer, not having to get up feeling absolutely knackered, before you even start!
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
I see you are not using the side bar on your flat 8 grab. I find it helps crowd the pack together and prevents the likelihood of the stack collapsing sideways and any gaps between each pack. It’s real advantage is in the field when loading trailers, but also help when stacking.
However, I do remove it when I take the stack apart and loading lorries as the packs are already tight.
The bars are usually on the right hand side of the grab, which isn’t ideal when using a telescopic with the cab on the right hand side as it is difficult to see. Some grabs you can choose to put it on the left hand side.
I find them really useful and saves a hell of a lot of time in keeping each pack really tight by crowding them sideways as you pick them up.
ive never ever stacked my round hay bales on pallets or anything , except the floor, be it concrete in one barn or road plannings in other, thats 300 odd bales, last couple of years i stack them baked bin style? cant go higher than 3 high with loader tractor, on edge can go 4 high( 4ft round bale) with loader tractor, but thats just under the barn purlins? Only ever had one scare, a few years ago when hay bales were 5ft round, baled slightly to early, had left out in field a week to cool? then stacked in barn, after a week in barn, could see the heap steaming, steam?
Mark C
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
Getting filled up. Another good week we’ll be nearly there Quality is certainly the best we’ve made in a few years thur time last year only had 800 bales in the shed due to 3 weeks of unsettled weather which messed the quality up
You’re not the only one...have to find a new home come maize time.
No pallets , tut tut .
It was discussed...thats as far as it got
Would be different if we intended to sell the stuff.farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
Well I have not done the making yet... but when I do.......
I see the facebook heros are still giving away small bale hay at 2005 values!
Given diesel and fert up 300%, parts, national insurance, and all the other costs too.... What is the consensus here on what customers should be paying for small bale hay this year?
Given hay takes half the growing season the first 10% of the increase we need to be charging is just to recover the 20% lost from SFP reductions......!
Or have you lot cut back livestock numbers and have now made so much good hay this year that the forage market will be swamped
I see the facebook heros are still giving away small bale hay at 2005 values!
Given diesel and fert up 300%, parts, national insurance, and all the other costs too.... What is the consensus here on what customers should be paying for small bale hay this year?
Given hay takes half the growing season the first 10% of the increase we need to be charging is just to recover the 20% lost from SFP reductions......!
Or have you lot cut back livestock numbers and have now made so much good hay this year that the forage market will be swamped
£8 .Well I have not done the making yet... but when I do.......
I see the facebook heros are still giving away small bale hay at 2005 values!
Given diesel and fert up 300%, parts, national insurance, and all the other costs too.... What is the consensus here on what customers should be paying for small bale hay this year?
Given hay takes half the growing season the first 10% of the increase we need to be charging is just to recover the 20% lost from SFP reductions......!
Or have you lot cut back livestock numbers and have now made so much good hay this year that the forage market will be swamped
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
Most of those sales are beer money
Little squeak
Member
- Location
- Lancashire
I think sellers at £3 consider it better to sell 100% than charge £5 and just sell 2%, it's supply and demand
farmerm
Member
- Location
- Shropshire
I think I would rather just top or big bale 100% of it and have only 2% of the work