I've have a Delmhorst meter for over 25 years. The 'calibration' check (hand moisture level) is changing yearly, but isn't the green zone under 20% ?
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I noticed some people here have been cutting. May is our wettest month (5+ inches on average). Not sure if they will have hay or silage.
Even if I had the equipment, only a few acres aren't forest.
Even if I had the equipment, only a few acres aren't forest.
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How's this look for dry hay weather?
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The one I own (and I bought it direct from Delmhorst in New Jersey), I can set the threshold anywhere I want to set it. There is no 'green zone' on mine at all and I have all the probes as well as the slipper shoes that go in the bale chamber for real time measurement as well. Wasn't cheap but I wanted all the necessary probes plus I wanted a 100% user programmable and defined measurement.
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I'd send you a package but I'm too cheap too. We are eating Angus presently. Just had a pork belly done as well. Great bacon I might add.
Google Raider Red Meats in Lubbock. Their prime fillets are pretty close to fork tender.
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A friend of mine did his first cutting this week. I helped him toss bales on the wagon last night, and load into his barn. Started off terribly hot and humid, but a cold front passed through, and it was pretty nice evening. Got done just in time to close the barn before 50mph gusts and rain came through.
For as much rain as we've had lately, those winds sure kicked up the dust from the freshly planted fields.
For as much rain as we've had lately, those winds sure kicked up the dust from the freshly planted fields.
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We have haylage down here today, but just a little.
Very few fields have been cut.
Very few fields have been cut.
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When we start haylage or balage on the farm a decent day will be 20 acres a really good day would see 30 covered. Thats using the rakes and doubling windrows up. The bigger guys with the triple mowers and huge mergers will often do 6 windrows at a time for the choppers, with light yields I have seen them cover a 100 acres in a day but 60 or 80 acres is quite common.