2018 HAY SEASON Post your results here

[StuartDK45SE]

My ten acres in hay got baled last Friday. 5 acres I had mowed a while back, so it wasn't nearly as thick as the other side. Got six each 4 x 5 round bales from one side and fourteen from the other for a total of twenty bales. Saturday I put out 2000 lbs of 18-5-10. I wanted to use 15-15-15 but they were out. I'll hit it again maybe late September. Rain in forecast this weekend, so keeping my fingers crossed.


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[StuartDK45SE]

Fertilizer out Saturday, 3.5" absolute deluge on Tuesday. The 3.5" was fine but not in an hour or two. Now sure how much washed down the bar ditches. Oh well, glad I didn't put out everything I could have.

 

[cat fever]

Sorry not a lot of details, just heard about it Sunday. A local rancher finished baling (round bales) unhooked the baler and was eating lunch, it had been about 2 hours when he seen his baler catch fire. Burnt it completely up. It is suspected that a bearing was the cause. (The baler was left empty)

 

[Bigfoot62]

Finished the 3rd cutting last week. 115 rolls (4x5) on my 52 acres. Still not great, but better than the first two cuttings. That's 238 rolls from 52 acres. I normally get between 400-500 rolls. We still have time for another cutting, IF we get some significant rainfall. I'm not holding my breath.

 

[joeu235]

Baled 12 acres of coastal Saturday. 270 lbs/acre 20-10-10, sprayed, and irrigated twice. 360 square bales. Sold them for $8 / bale picked out of the field and they were all sold.

Last year we got x3 that. Ugh, this drought sucks.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Baled 12 acres of coastal Saturday. 270 lbs/acre 20-10-10, sprayed, and irrigated twice. 360 square bales. Sold them for $8 / bale picked out of the field and they were all sold.

Last year we got x3 that. Ugh, this drought sucks.

This drought does suck. People are trucking hay in from where ever it has rained.

 

[Agvg]

Not strictly hay but

 

[joeu235]

good looking silage and the view is amazing.

 

[Tx Jim]

i baled 39 acres of Coastal yesterday for a local dairyman that he had applied lagoon water to about 1/2 the area & it made 144 4X5.5 rd bales.

 

[bill ns]

Unusually hot and dry summer here on east coast of Canada. My hay crop was way down I got 140 4x5 round bales last year and 800 small squares This year i got my own 4x4 baler and only got 107 round bales off the same fields and 350 small squares .