Fair few have been caught by the price drop in hay since they agreed to take the fields and they do not have barns to store it in. Folks kept on in the spring that low fert usage would see poor yields and shortages of fodder etc so they gave too much for the grass. Better take £2 now and been done with it than rent a barn and take £2 later
Hay making 2022
- Thread starter carbonfibre farmer
- Start date
Not bad for a haybob! I've erased the couple of hours spent changing springs before I started from my mind
alway got some selling cheap to move it on
Shortest hay time I can remember here. 60 acre cut Tuesday Wednesday, all baled up by Sunday night. Also we have a six rotor Tedder and it was worth every penny. Had enough years haybobbing, remember doing it with a hangover once, it was like death by a thousand cuts.
Are they raked swaths? Can you go fast enough for the flat 8
f**king shower of rain here this morning that wasn't even enough to damp the dust down but enough to stop me baling hay 
I wouldn't mind if it pee'd down and was enough to grow some grass but literally all its done is make the sun go away. Looks like I'll be back on it tomorrow though looking at the forecast so I'm putting my loader tractor back together now all the parts have arrived.
I wouldn't mind if it pee'd down and was enough to grow some grass but literally all its done is make the sun go away. Looks like I'll be back on it tomorrow though looking at the forecast so I'm putting my loader tractor back together now all the parts have arrived.
- Location
- People's Republic of South Yorkshire
Last few bales out of 274.
Starting to spot with rain, but think stop. Clouds emptied before they got to us.
Same heref**king shower of rain here this morning that wasn't even enough to damp the dust down but enough to stop me baling hay
I wouldn't mind if it pee'd down and was enough to grow some grass but literally all its done is make the sun go away. Looks like I'll be back on it tomorrow though looking at the forecast so I'm putting my loader tractor back together now all the parts have arrived.
- Location
- Huntingdon
Any tips on knowing when Lucerne hay is fit ?
It’s not the sort of crop you can keep turning, if you want anything of value to bale ! Does it read the same on a moisture meter as no?
It’s not the sort of crop you can keep turning, if you want anything of value to bale ! Does it read the same on a moisture meter as no?
hollister
Member
- Location
- Alcester, warks
Give a handful a few twists. If it snaps and doesn't feel sticky i find it ok. Stuff cut last Sunday was baled Saturday morning but could have been done day before but I was elsewhere. tested in microwave wednesday at 25-30%
Mark C
Member
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Mark C
Member
- Location
- Bedfordshire
- Location
- North Suffolk
We are done a month sooner than last year, but about 900 round bales down on same acreage. Cold Spring winds hampered us. Had some left from last year and brought in some conventional bales at 3.50 delivered as at that money it's not worth doing them ourselves. Put the round baler in the last bit instead so we should be ok now
- Location
- Near Colchester
Still playing about.
First and hopefully the only turning of this.
Ryegrass being raked up for wrapping tomorrow.
First and hopefully the only turning of this.
Ryegrass being raked up for wrapping tomorrow.
cattleman123
Member
- Location
- devon
Forget the wrap...make hay
- Location
- Near Colchester
No way, by the time that is dry enough it will be bleached and leafless.
cattleman123
Member
- Location
- devon
But see what you would save
- Location
- N.Lincs
Due to the crazy price of plastic and the scorching English summer our bale wrapper is still tucked up in it's winter lodgings in the back of the shed.
Baled the last 40 acres of the hay campaign yesterday for our neighbour.
His daughter is getting married on Saturday and she asked me if I'd wrap one bale as she wants one for 'a feature' at the reception (no idea what she's going to do with it
)
Rather than drag the HS 2000 out and then have to weedle it back into that awkward spot in the back of the shed, I decided there must be a quicker way......
Got the job done
.....
......but wouldn't fancy tackling a field full
Baled the last 40 acres of the hay campaign yesterday for our neighbour.
His daughter is getting married on Saturday and she asked me if I'd wrap one bale as she wants one for 'a feature' at the reception (no idea what she's going to do with it
)Rather than drag the HS 2000 out and then have to weedle it back into that awkward spot in the back of the shed, I decided there must be a quicker way......
Got the job done
...........but wouldn't fancy tackling a field full
Would you save a massive amount, by the time he has turned it to dry it out which could be 7 times and with the cost of diesel then the wrap would pay for the extra turning.