Did a little hay last week ...

[blueriver]

Wow, we are very fortunate. After that heat wave a month or so ago it started raining. First a few days of soaking rain, then "maintenance rain" an hour or so almost every day for the last month. We usually get 3 cuttings a year, but the third is already ready to cut, so a fourth is a real possibility. I am seeing a foot of growth every two weeks. What a great season to have a broken baler:thumbsdown:

Thats fantastic ... not the baler ... the rain. I would love to have more to cut.

 

[Bob Ha]

We got 6 tenths of rain Firday. Cut our last fields today and already sold before we could even finish baling.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Well finally got done baling ended up with 66rolls and 160 square bales. The 7040 had a time pulling the baler up some of the hills over there was in 3low and 4x4 to get up and had issue with net not tieing think it was the cheap net...

the 2grand baler worked great busted first 5 bales,done alittle adjusting and ran like a champ. The father-in-law pulling it with the Mahindra he just picked up,while we finished up round baling,wife didnt get any pictures of us dang it....

 

[pacerron]

Thats fantastic ... not the baler ... the rain. I would love to have more to cut.

Have you guys been plagued by high nitrate values in drought stressed hay and corn silage when it is harvested soon after a rain?
The high nitrates are poisonous to livestock. A lot of corn up here that isn't going to produce many ears because of the drought
has been, or is planned to be cut early as silage, but the warnings are going out to test it for high nitrate levels. Other states are doing the same.
Test forage before cutting to avoid nitrate toxicity challenges — Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

http://www.greenwood.ksu.edu/p.aspx?tabid=54

Ron

 

[foreman Etexas]

Well I jacked up a gathering wheel just the rubber part missing two teeth skip a few then another,I done it when un-loading and boy was I disappointed:duh: in myself it was dark I just figured it was going to clear like usual. Should I buy a new one or just run it like is,looks like next year when I haul it just take them off and then put back on when get unloaded. To buy or not to buy is the question?

 

[blueriver]

Have you guys been plagued by high nitrate values in drought stressed hay and corn silage when it is harvested soon after a rain?
The high nitrates are poisonous to livestock. A lot of corn up here that isn't going to produce many ears because of the drought
has been, or is planned to be cut early as silage, but the warnings are going out to test it for high nitrate levels. Other states are doing the same.
Test forage before cutting to avoid nitrate toxicity challenges — Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Greenwood County - Crops and Livestock>Agriculture Alerts

Ron

I have not .. of course I don't do either hay or corn silage. When the drought plays it toll I don't even have any thing to bale. Thats a good article.

 

[blueriver]

Well I jacked up a gathering wheel just the rubber part missing two teeth skip a few then another,I done it when un-loading and boy was I disappointed:duh: in myself it was dark I just figured it was going to clear like usual. Should I buy a new one or just run it like is,looks like next year when I haul it just take them off and then put back on when get unloaded. To buy or not to buy is the question?

Well thats your call ... I always like to replace things as needed that way its always ready.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Well thats your call ... I always like to replace things as needed that way its always ready.

I was just wondering if it would affect it,to were they wouldnt work..

 

[pacerron]

I have not .. of course I don't do either hay or corn silage. When the drought plays it toll I don't even have any thing to bale. Thats a good article.

I was thinking you did some millet hay this year and somebody on this thread was doing Johnson Grass hay.

 

[blueriver]

I was thinking you did some millet hay this year and somebody on this thread was doing Johnson Grass hay.

Yes I did some Pearl Millet ... first cut was good and then no rain and its as brown as a short cut lawn!!!