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[Red Robin]

Rained 3 inches the first of this week . It's raining now and supposed to rain tomorrow . There is a good chance of rain for the most of next week. I think I made a good decision for once stunting my fescue seed we over fertilized. One of my buddies on the other hand cut 70 acres of wheat hay down 3 days ago . They changed the forcast while the mowers were running. We were laughing how decisions in the cattle business look so good but 12 hours later sure make you look stupid. I bet he doesn't get it up for a week or so. The swaths are pretty heavy. My trouble is going to be the fields I fertilized normally. I didn't put any growth inhibitor on them (I never have used it before) and with rain like this that makes grass grow wildly, lots of the seedheads lodge anyway.

 

[Red Robin]

The fescue seed that didn't have growth inhibitor on it , which is most of them, are lodged bad. Should be fun to swath. The combining of those big swaths are nasty as well. That mold gets to me and I dread slugging the little F2 and having to clean out. There is a point where lots of rain is a bad thing. I could have got more seed in the grain tank with less water. Oh well, you get what you get and you can't get it all. FWIW the growth inhibitor worked very well. All that field is standing like soldiers at attention. Sure looks pretty compared to the rest of them. I'm curious , have any of y'all ever swathed grass seed ,or something with that much fodder , all the way down to the ground ? Could you ever get it dry enough to combine?