Anyone mow hay yet?

[Torvy]

Google Raider Red Meats in Lubbock. Their prime fillets are pretty close to fork tender.

May have to give that a shot. Our youngest is a Red Raider in Lubbock. We'll be out there at least once this summer.

 

[5030]

Rained here every evening for a week and last eve was no exception except quite a few guys have fields down which are now cooking and wet in the 90 degree heat. I'm sure the mold is growing quite well. Just the thought of idiot cubes makes me sweat. Sold my 575 3 years ago and I don't miss it one bit. Sold the wagons and the hay elevators too.

From the looks of things here, I'd say good mixed grass / alfalfa hay that wasn't rained on will command a huge price this fall.

After doing this for quite a few years, I've learned that patience is always better than jumping the gun and winding up with brown moldy hay. That especially applies to my alfalfa. Touchy enough as it is. Not only is the cost of fitting it up high but it can go to crap real quick.

I'm in no hurry what so ever.

 

[Hay Dude]

I’ll be out cutting hay next week. Still have a few problems to work on, but it’s dang near “go time”, which basically means the entire month of June will be like a blur.

 

[DJ54]

We got right at 3" of rain over a 4 day period here last week. We had 3 days of warm sunny weather since Sunday but would be tough to get it dry on that saturated soil, without beating it to pieces with the tedder. Endophyte free fescue is over 3' tall, red clover and alfalfa mixed in is 2' tall and in full bloom. It is very thick and heavy.

Most generally we get a high-pressure system coming down from Canada the first/second week of June every year. Like 5030 says, a little patience is the best. I'd rather make it a bit mature than have musty/moldy hay.

 

[Hay Dude]

Finally got underway today. It’s “hammer down” time on 2024!




Can’t post pictures right now for some strange reason, but I will soon!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Dad either broke the gear box on my rotary mower, or damaged the PTO clutch. I'm hoping the first one........ So I gotta go to the farm this week to find out. Been shopping for a larger mower to use anyways, so trying to decide on Flail or a dual spindle rotary mower, for 44 PTO HP tractor. Looks like 7 ft about largest that it will support.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Got my first cutting done this past week, cut down one field of coastal Bermuda and one field of Tif Quick bahia on Tuesday and was able to roll the coastal on Thursday and the bahia on Friday and other than clogging up my baler for the first time, everything else went off without a hitch, we have had fantastic hay weather for 2 weeks now and looks like this week is going to be dry as well, good luck to everyone cutting this upcoming week. Charlie.

 

[MoKelly]

Dumb question —- the guy who hays my back field has been ill recently. He should be back in commission early July.

Is it possible for the grass to get too high/thick to be baled? The grass is now about 3 feet.

 

[LHF2019]

Dumb question —- the guy who hays my back field has been ill recently. He should be back in commission early July.

Is it possible for the grass to get too high/thick to be baled? The grass is now about 3 feet.

No. If there are issues it would be equipment not setup correctly or extremely old and wore out/not up to today's yields

 

[LouNY]

Dumb question —- the guy who hays my back field has been ill recently. He should be back in commission early July.

Is it possible for the grass to get too high/thick to be baled? The grass is now about 3 feet.

It all depends on the use of the hay and the nutrition and digestibility desired. That will be very mature and will have lost much digestibility but is likely to have considerable new growth in the bottom. The tonnage yield will be higher.