May hay

[bobk]

Anyone else thinking of having a go ? forecast is quite hot later this week.

 

[spin cycle]

is it...thats interesting....yes then....but trouble is grass is very sappy

 

[DRC]

Haven't got a blade to mow this year.

 

[multi power]

is it...thats interesting....yes then....but trouble is grass is very sappy

But it's leaf, not stem, leaf dries easy, stem doesn't

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Anyone else thinking of having a go ? forecast is quite hot later this week.

Not you and your hay again. Was it not November you did it last year

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Not you and your hay again. Was it not November you did it last year

I get it now .Your on 6 month rotation

 

[bobk]

Not you and your hay again. Was it not November you did it last year

Look at the weather , not the time.

 

[RAF]

I did think of knocking some off looks hot end week but will take some killing

 

[7610 super q]

Hmmmm........Dad says May-hay = never any good. So, we'll probably make it in wet and windy June again instead.......

Still, nothing there worth cutting ATM.

 

[czechmate]

Mowing as I write

 

[DrWazzock]

Half a crop there at the moment. Not flowering yet, no heads, but it will probably be twice the feed value as if we leave it till June and its stalky and caught by the rain. Not sure that leaving it will improve the quality as the season is moving on and will just go to stalk.

I think I'll mow some tomorrow. Ground will have dried a bit more by then.

 

[davidroberts30]

Ha i got a 3 day head start on you lot

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Look at the weather , not the time.

If in had grass anywhere near I would be cutting it .a bale of young green hay is worth 10 of old rubbish. Most hay last year was cut to old .load of rubbish not worth baling

 

[bobk]

If in had grass anywhere near I would be cutting it .a bale of young green hay is worth 10 of old rubbish. Most hay last year was cut to old .load of rubbish not worth baling

So I'm right then

 

[davidroberts30]

Hmmmm........Dad says May-hay = never any good. So, we'll probably make it in wet and windy June again instead.......

Still, nothing there worth cutting ATM.

I cut 8 acre that was too strong for cattle last year end of may with the intention to wrap it to get it out of the way.got called out on silage for a few days and when i looked at it it was only a turning off hay so we baled it.loverly green hay it was

 

[Derrick Hughes]

So I'm right then

I don't know

 

[bobk]

I don't know

Can always wrap it , can't I .

 

[Owd Fred]

Seems like folk can only learn by experience, it also seems that putting green hay into the bays will very soon be grey hay, better spoil in the field than spoil in the bay, then fire.
You have the option if in doubt when its baled, get it wrapped.

 

[multi power]

Hmmmm........Dad says May-hay = never any good. So, we'll probably make it in wet and windy June again instead.......

Still, nothing there worth cutting ATM.

No offence but don't waste your life listening to the old man, I wasted too much of my life doing just that

 

[le bon paysan]

Mowing as I write

I have to wait to get in before I can post, but cut 10 hectares,