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A couple of Hay Pics

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Even with the little shower this morning- my swather man was able to get a little hay cut... This old country can grow some hay- and crops when we have water...

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Wheat fields are 2 foot + tall and starting to ripen...
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Old country??? You guys haven't been farming long at all out there. We're one of the original 13 colonies (Mass at the time) and this town was founded in 1736. Lots of nutrients have been mined over that time period. Maine was constantly cleared and farmed until the civil war, then people started moving west for more fertile ground.
 
:lol: :lol: Ya Ben I probably should have said old desert country...Anyway- I don't think I've seen hayfields and crops like this ever before...
 
I'm envious OT. We're pretty well skunked up here unless you count the bumper crop of grasshoppers :(
We've done up about 250 acres and have a grand total of just less than 250 bales for our efforts. We cut the good stuff first :?
 
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I'm envious OT. We're pretty well skunked up here unless you count the bumper crop of grasshoppers :(
We've done up about 250 acres and have a grand total of just less than 250 bales for our efforts. We cut the good stuff first :?
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Yep- Been there- done that...I know how it is...This is the first time in about 5 years we've even tried haying the dryland hayfields- just grazed them as there wasn't enough to cut ...And this year we're running over 3 bales an acre (and if we get any kind of rain we will get a good regrowth for pasture as 2 inchs down the ground is mud)... :D

I don't know what this irrigated will run-- but its the tallest, thickest I think I have ever saw on this place in the 60 years I've been here.....Same with the bottomland wheat fields.....
 
I just finished up 45 acres I got 196 1100# bales off it the next 80 acres is as good as the first if not better.
 
Yeah last year was terrible one piece was 120 acres and I got 89 bales counting the 7 in the road ditch. I have'nt done those yet but they'll add up much better this year.
 
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Heres a picture of a couple of the north place neighbors boys standing in their pea field....Both them boys are well over 6 foot tall...
I stole this off the northern ag network-- which is asking for bragging pictures of the crops this year.....

If only the grasshoppers and white reaper stay away :? Scattered thunder storms rumbling thru tonight - some predicted severe.. :(
 
Dry bales I do 4'x4'10", wrapped I do 4'x4'6"
June 19 and 22 we got 49 bales off 16.9 acres
July 2/3 we got 54 bales off 29.2 acres
both of these field are behind on their fertility.
 

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